{"title":"YOU NEED A BETTER GOSPEL: Reclaiming the Good News of Participation with Christ","authors":"J. Revell","doi":"10.53521/a340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a340","url":null,"abstract":"By Klyne Snodgrass (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2022), 208pp., US$22.99. \u0000ISBN 9781540965042","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126815617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Background to ‘Believing Criticism’ in the Free Church of Scotland","authors":"A. Harman","doi":"10.53521/a330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a330","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the introduction of ‘believing criticism’ in the Free Church of Scotland in the 19th century was not just a sudden development in the 1870s. Rather, the seeds of it go back much further, even to the Disruption itself. Some inappropriate decisions of the Free Church General Assembly, among other factors, paved the way for A. B. Davidson to commence lecturing on Pentateuchal criticism. His student, William Robert Smith, was not so discreet, and openly espoused views that departed from the teaching of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Dealing with him took several years, until he was relieved of his position in 1881, though not deposed from the ministry. By that time, ‘believing criticism’ was firmly entrenched in the Free Church.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125184190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gospel, Disease, and Theistic Evolution","authors":"Martina Williams","doi":"10.53521/a296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a296","url":null,"abstract":"Through the cross, Christ established the kingdom of God, which set in motion a process that will bring about not only the restoration of God’s people but the renovation of the entire cosmos. A key part of this restoration is the reversal of death and disease, mourning and pain, of which Jesus’ healings and revivifications in the Gospels are a confirmation and foretaste. If Jesus died to bear every illness and disease of those who place their faith in him, then all human disease must come as a result of the fall. Thus, sickness and disease are, from the Bible’s perspective, related to the fall. If, however, sickness and disease were already a part of the human experience prior to the fall, then the Gospel is compromised.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114274485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STORIES WITH INTENT: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus, 2nd edn","authors":"Tony Bird","doi":"10.53521/a323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a323","url":null,"abstract":"By Klyne R. Snodgrass (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018), 892pp., US$58.00.ISBN 9780802875693","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133240069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GUIDEBOOK FOR INSTRUCTION IN THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION","authors":"Stephen Tan","doi":"10.53521/a324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a324","url":null,"abstract":"By Herman Bavinck, translated and edited by Gregory Parker Jr and Cameron Clausing (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2022), 248pp., hbk, US$29.95.ISBN 9781683072997","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129921616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TEACHING ANTI-COMMUNISM: Fred Schwarz and American Postwar Conservatism","authors":"A. Harman","doi":"10.53521/a326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a326","url":null,"abstract":"By Hubert Villeneuve (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), 461pp., CA$49.95. ISBN 9780228001867","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126595743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giving John a Fair Go: Christology in John and the Synoptics","authors":"A. Chapple","doi":"10.53521/a314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a314","url":null,"abstract":"In agreement with recent argument that the earliest Christians affirmed the divine identity of Jesus, this essay argues that differences between Christology in the Synoptics and John are too seldom assessed with sufficient care. First, the implications of the differing narrative styles of the Gospels are analysed and considered, showing how failures in this area lead to such problems as treating differences that are complementary as divisions, or differences of degree as differences of kind—thus confusing a greater presentation of Christology with a presentation of a greater Christology. Secondly, it is argued that the major Christological difference between the Gospels lies not in their content but in the way they present it. It does so by showing how the same divine Christology that is explicit in John’s prologue is implicit in Mark’s introduction and Matthew’s conclusion.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129991273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insights from Calvin on Pastoral Leadership","authors":"Joe Mock","doi":"10.53521/a320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53521/a320","url":null,"abstract":"Together with Farel, Calvin set up institutions in Geneva that would support, facilitate, and grow pastoral ministry in Geneva and beyond. The key focus of ministry in Geneva was on the ministry of the word of God. As a prophet who expounded and applied God’s word, Calvin set the model for others. From Calvin’s farewell messages prior to his death, several insights can be gleaned concerning his approach to pastoral leadership.","PeriodicalId":188810,"journal":{"name":"Reformed Theological Review","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130372868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}