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Since 1966, Calvin Theological Journal, produced by Calvin Theological Seminary, aims to serve the community of Reformed theological scholarship, and through it, the ministers and members of the Reformed churches.

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Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 33 No 1 - April 1998)

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Editorial: John Bolt - 7 / Articles: Between Sacrament and Contract: Marriage as Covenant in John Calvin's Geneva by John Witte Jr. - 9 / Prophet in Scotland: The Self-Image of John Knox by Dale W. Johnson and James Edward McGoldrick - 76 / John Owen's Dissertation on Divine Justice: An Exercise in Christocentric Scholasticism by Carl R. Trueman - 87 / God and Conscience by John Webster - 104 / Irenaeus Speaks Swedish: Gustaf Wingren's Challenge to North American Evangelicals by David T. Priestley - 125 / Scholia et Homiletica: What DNA Tells Us about the Human Soul by Jeffrey H. Boyd - 142 / Plantinga vs. Oliphint: And the Winner Is... by Kelly J. Clark - 160 / When Do We Forgive? by Bastiaan Van Elderen - 169 / Review Article: Condensing Irenaeus by James R. Payton Jr. - 175 / Book Reviews - Scripture and Interpretation: Dunn, James D. G., The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 186 / Evans, C. Stephen, The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith, reviewed by John Bolt - 188 / Farmer, Craig S., The Gospel of John in the Sixteenth Century: The Johannine Exegesis of Wolfgang Musculus, reviewed by Raymond A. Blacketer - 191 / LaGrand, James, The Earliest Christian Mission to "All Nations": In the Light of Matthew's Gospel, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 193 / Ludemann, Gerd, Heretics: The Other Side of Christianity, reviewed by Donald A. Hagner - 195 / Minkema, Kenneth P., Sermons and Discourses: 1723-1729, Vol. 14 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, reviewed by Helen Westra - 197 / Witherington III, Ben, The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth, reviewed by Nick Overduin - 200 / Theology and History: Butin, Philip Walker, Revelation, Redemption, and Response: Calvin's Trinitarian Understanding of the Divine-Human Relationship, reviewed by John Bolt - 205 / Calvin, John, The Bondage and Liberation of the Will: A Defense of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice Against Pighius, reviewed by Raymond A. Blacketer - 207 / Dawn, Marva J., Trajectories & Sources: Eight Early Articles by Jacques Ellul That Set the Stage, reviewed by Mark G. McKim - 208 / Ford, David F., The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology in the Twentieth Century, reviewed by John Bolt - 210 / Grell, Ole Peter, Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England, reviewed by Martin I. Klauber - 211 / Neville, Robert C., God the Creator: On the Transcendence and Presence of God, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 213 / Pailin, David A., Probing the Foundations: A Study in Theistic Reconstruction, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 215 / Sontag, Frederick, The Acts of the Trinity, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 216 / Church and Mission: Allen, Ronald J., Barbara Shires Blaisdell, and Scott Black Johnston, Theology for Preaching: Authority, Truth, and Knowledge of God in a Postmodern Ethos, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 217 / Capps, Donald, Men, Religion, and Melancholia: James, Otto, Jung, and Erikson, reviewed by J. Harold Ellens - 220 / Ciszek, Walter J., With God in Russia, reviewed by Joel H. Nederhood - 221 / Erickson, Millard J., and James L. Heflin, Old Wine in New Wineskins: Doctrinal Preaching in a Changing World, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 223 / Ford, David F., and Dennis L. Stamps, Essentials of Christian Community: Essays for Daniel W. Hardy, reviewed by Mark G. McKim - 224 / Garrett, Duane A., Angels and the New Spirituality, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 225 / Kennedy, James C., Nieuw Babylon in Aanbouw: Nederland in de Jaren 'Zestig, reviewed by John Bolt - 227 / Lowry, Eugene, The Sermon: Dancing the Edge of Mystery, reviewed by Nick Overduin - 229 / Monroe, Kelly, Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Thinking Christians, reviewed by Joel Edward Kok - 231 / Rummel, Erika, Erasmus on Women, reviewed by Martin I. Klauber - 232 / Van Dyken, Seymour, with Barbara M. R. Van Dyken, Becoming Like Jesus: Nurturing the Virtues of Christ, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 234 / Weston, William J., Presbyterian Pluralism: Competition in a Protestant House, reviewed by Paul C. Kemeny - 235
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 32 No 2 - November 1997)

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Editorial by John Bolt - 251 / Articles: Christian Worship in Consecrated Space and Time by Arie C. Leder - 253 / The Spirituality of the Psalter: Metrical Psalms in Liturgy and Life in Calvin's Geneva by John D. Witvliet - 273 / The Second Sunday Service in the Early Dutch Reformed Tradition by Donald Sinnema - 298 / John W. Nevin on the Mystical Presence by Arie J. Griffioen - 334 / The Mission of a Local Church by Calvin P. Van Reken - 344 / Calvin Bibliography: 1997 by Peter De Klerk and P. Fields - 368 / Scholia et Homiletica: Trends in Christian and Reformed Worship by Emily R. Brink - 395 / It May Be Refreshing, But Is It Reformed? by D. G. Hart - 407 / Of Images and Image Breakers by Harry Boonstra - 423 / Preach the Word! To Children? by Wilbert M. VanDyk - 431 / Job: An Introduction by John Stek - 443 / What Does Aristotle Have to Do With Paul? An Evaluation of Rhetorical Criticism by Jeffrey A. D. Weima - 458 / Cleansed Once for All: John Owen on the Glory of Gospel Worship in Hebrews by A. Craig Troxel - 468 / Book Reviews - Scripture and Interpretation: Alison, James, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 480 / Jeffrey, David Lyle, People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture, reviewed by Jens Zimmermann - 483 / Longenecker, Richard N., Patterns of Discipleship in the New Testament, reviewed by Nick Overduin - 487 / Ramsay, William M., Historical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 488 / Stanton, Graham, Gospel Truth? New Light on Jesus and the Gospels, reviewed by Kenneth E. Pomykala - 490 / Walker, P. W. L., Jesus and the Holy City: New Testament Perspectives on Jerusalem, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 492 / Wright, N. T., Jesus and the Victory of God. Vol. 2, Christian Origins and the Question of God, reviewed by Hans Boersma - 494 / Theology and History: Campbell, John McLeod, The Nature of the Atonement, reviewed by Leanne Van Dyk - 497 / Douglas, J. D., Twentieth-Century Dictionary of Christian Biography, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 498 / Grenz, Stanley J. and Roger E. Olson, Who Needs Theology? An Invitation to the Study of God, reviewed by Edwin Walhout - 499 / Jefford, Clayton N., with Kenneth J. Harder and Louis D. Amezaga, Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction, reviewed by Raymond A. Blacketer - 502 / Kaufman, Peter Iver, Prayer, Despair, and Drama: Elizabethan Introspection, reviewed by Jens Zimmerman - 503 / Kunnie, Julian, Models of Black Theology, reviewed by Morris Greidanus - 504 / Marshall, Paul, A Kind of Life Imposed on Man: Vocation and Social Order from Tyndale to Locke, reviewed by Douglas J. Schuurman - 505 / McCormack, Bruce L., Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936, reviewed by Sung Wook Chung - 507 / McFarlane, Graham, Christ and the Spirit: The Doctrine of the Incarnation According to Edward Irving, reviewed by Leanne Van Dyk - 510 / Meilaender, Gilbert C., Body, Soul, and Bioethics, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 511 / Nassif, Bradley, New Perspectives on Historical Theology: Essays in Memory of John Meyendorff, reviewed by James R. Payton Jr. - 513 / Niebuhr, H. Richard, Theology, History, and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings, reviewed by John Bolt - 515 / Parker, T. H. L., Ioannis Calvini Opera Exegetica. Vol. 19, Commentarius in Epistolam ad Hebraeos, reviewed by Raymond A. Blacketer - 516 / Pettegree, Andrew, Alastair Duke, and Gillian Lewis, Calvinism in Europe, 1540-1620, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 517 / Thunberg, Lars, Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus Confessor, reviewed by James Payton Jr. - 519 / Church and Mission: Coleman, Simon and John Elsner, Pilgrimage: Past and Present in the World Religions, reviewed by John Bolt - 521 / Downey, Michael, Understanding Christian Spirituality, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 523 / Eaton, Michael, No Condemnation: A New Theology of Assurance, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 524 / Harrington, Joel F., Reordering Marriage and Society in Reformation Germany, reviewed by Martin Klauber - 527 / Kilner, John F., Nigel M. de S. Cameron, and David L. Schiedermayer, Bioethics and the Future of Medicine: A Christian Appraisal; Kilner, John F., Arlene B. Miller, and Edmund D. Pellegrino, Dignity and Dying: A Christian Appraisal, reviewed by Hessel Bouma III - 529 / Kyle, Richard, The New Age Movement in American Culture, reviewed by Bradley J. Gundlach - 531 / May, William F., Testing the Medical Covenant: Active Euthanasia and Health Care Reform, reviewed by Hessel Bouma III - 533 / Geertsema, J., Always Obedient: Essays on the Teachings of Dr. Klaas Schilder; De Jong, J.P., Bound Yet Free: Readings in Reformed Church Polity; Van Dam, Cornelis, The Liberation: Causes and Consequences; Faber, Jelle, American Secession Theologians on Covenant and Baptism; Schilder, Klaas, Extra-Scriptural Binding: A New Danger, reviewed by Richard J. Mouw - 535 / Schilder, Aleid and Jan Veenhof, Van Vrijmaking tot Bevrijding, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 540 / Schuringa, H. David, Hearing the Word in a Visual Age: A Practical Theological Consideration of Preaching with the Contemporary Urge to Visualization, reviewed by Roger Van Harn - 542 / Shepherd, John, The Question of Woman: The Collected Writings of Charlotte van Kirschbaum, reviewed by Margo Houts - 546 / Spence, Jonathan, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, reviewed by Albert Hamstra - 549 / Book Notices: Scripture and Interpretation - 552 / Theology and History - 555 / Church and Ministry - 562 / Thesis Abstracts: Doctor of Philosophy - 568 / Master of Theology - 569
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 32 No 1 - April 1997)

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Editorial by John Bolt - 7 / Trinitarianism Today: Doctrinal Renaissance, Ethical Relevance, Social Redolence by Thomas R. Thompson - 9 / Jesus in the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel by John Webster - 43 / Creation as the Home of God: The Doctrine of Creation in the Theology of Jürgen Moltmann by Steven Bouma-Prediger - 72 / Brunner the Ecumenist: Emil Brunner as a Vox Media of Protestant Theology by Mark G. McKim - 91 / Eschatology in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by Klaas Runia - 105 / Scholia et Homiletica: Onward Christian Soldiers—Praying in Love, with Mercy Preaching on the Epistle of Jude by Andrew J. Bandstra - 136 / The Denial of Missions in the Missiology of Anton Wessels by Timothy P. Palmer - 140 / Found (No Thanks to Theodore Beza): One “Decretal” Theology by Richard A. Muller - 145 / Book Reviews - Scripture and Interpretation: Bennett, David W., Metaphors of Ministry: Biblical Images for Leaders and Followers, reviewed by Gerald Zandstra - 152 / Calvin, John, Sermons on Galatians, Sermons on Election & Reprobation, Sermons on Psalm 119, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 153 / Constable, Thomas L., Talking to God: What the Bible Teaches About Prayer, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 157 / Edwards, Jonathan, Sermons and Discourses, 1720–1723, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 10, ed. Wilson Kimnach, reviewed by Helen Petter Westra - 158 / Goulder, Michael, St. Paul Versus St. Peter: A Tale of Two Missions, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 164 / Hoezee, Scott, The Riddle of Grace: Applying Grace to the Christian Life, reviewed by Roger Van Harn - 168 / Holwerda, David E., Jesus and Israel: One Covenant or Two?, reviewed by J. Harold Ellens - 171 / Johnson, L. T., The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels; Wilkins, Michael J. and J. P. Moreland, Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 172 / Theology and History: Boersma, Hans, A Hot Peppercorn: Richard Baxter's Doctrine of Justification in its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 175 / Booth, Robert R., Children of the Promise: The Biblical Case for Infant Baptism, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 176 / Corduan, Winfried, Reasonable Faith: Basic Christian Apologetics, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 177 / Elshtain, Jean Bethke, Augustine and the Limits of Politics, reviewed by John Bolt - 179 / Marsh, Thomas, The Triune God: A Biblical, Historical and Theological Study; Thompson, John, Modern Trinitarian Perspectives; Torrance, Thomas F., Trinitarian Perspectives: Toward Doctrinal Agreement, reviewed by Thomas R. Thompson - 180 / McDermott, Gerald R., One Holy and Happy Society: The Public Theology of Jonathan Edwards, reviewed by John Bolt - 189 / McInerny, Ralph, The Question of Christian Ethics, reviewed by Calvin Van Reken - 191 / Weinandy, Thomas G., The Father’s Spirit of Sonship: Reconceiving the Trinity, reviewed by Thomas R. Thompson - 195 / Church and Mission: Bork, Robert H., Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, reviewed by John Bolt - 200 / Braswell, George W., Jr., Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 202 / Bria, Ion and Dagmar Heller, Ecumenical Pilgrims: Profiles of Pioneers in Christian Reconciliation, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 203 / Kelsey, Morton, Healing and Christianity: A Classic Study, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 204 / O'Brien, Michael D., Father Elijah: An Apocalypse, reviewed by John Bolt - 205 / Parrinder, Geoffrey, Jesus in the Qur'an, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 207 / Book Notices - Scripture and Interpretation - 210 / Theology and History - 214 / Church and Mission - 217 / Thesis Abstracts - 220
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 31 No 2 - November 1996)

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Editorial: John Bolt - 333 / Calvin and Sixteenth-Century Spirituality: Comparison with the Anabaptists by Richard C. Gamble - 335 / Moderate Religious Liberty in the Theology of John Calvin by John Witte, Jr. - 359 / Did Calvin Use Lippoman's Catena in Genesim? by Anthony N. S. Lane - 404 / Calvin Bibliography: 1996 by Paul Fields - 420 / Scholia: Unfulfilled Expectations of Church Planting by David Snapper - 464 / Are Harold Netland's Principles Universal and Neutral? by T. S. Perry - 487 / The Question of Criteria: A Response to Mr. Perry by Harold A. Netland - 495 / The Church Needs to Understand Its Missionary Nature: A Response to John Bolt and Richard Muller by Craig Van Gelder and Dirk Hart - 504 / For the Sake of the Church: A Response to Van Gelder and Hart by John Bolt and Richard A. Muller - 520 / Book Reviews - Terry Eastland, ed., Religious Liberty in the Supreme Court: The Cases That Define the Debate over Church and State; Leonard W. Levy, The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment; Stephen V. Monsma, Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring; Ronald F. Thiemann, Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy, reviewed by James Skillen - 527 / David M. Howard, Jr., An Introduction to the Old Testament Historical Books, reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers - 531 / Anna-Marie Kool, God Moves in a Mysterious Way: The Hungarian Protestant Foreign Mission Movement (1756–1951), reviewed by Steve J. Van Der Weele - 533 / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, ed., After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation, reviewed by Mary Leigh Morbey (with Elizabeth Avery, Chris Davis, and Shawn de Raaf) - 537 / John Witte, Jr., ed., Christianity and Democracy in Global Context, reviewed by David T. Koyzis - 542 / John B. Cobb, Jr., Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy, reviewed by Stephen L. S. Smith - 543 / Marcia L. Colish, Peter Lombard, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 547 / Richard M. Gula, Euthanasia: Moral and Pastoral Perspectives, reviewed by Hessel Bouma III - 548 / Wendy E. Helleman, ed., Hellenization Revisited: Shaping a Christian Response within the Greco-Roman World, reviewed by Mark Gustafson - 551 / Douglas Johnston and Cynthia Sampson, eds., Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft, reviewed by Luis E. Lugo - 552 / James F. Kay, Christus Praesens: A Reconsideration of Rudolf Bultmann's Christology, reviewed by Donald A. Hagner - 554 / Peter Kreeft, C. S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on "The Abolition of Man", reviewed by John Bolt - 557 / Brian Rapske, The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Vol. 3: Paul in Roman Custody, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 559 / Andries Van Aarde, God with Us: The Dominant Perspective in Matthew's Story and Other Essays, reviewed by Donald A. Hagner - 563 / Joe C. W. Armstrong, Farewell the Peaceful Kingdom: The Rape and Seduction of Canada, 1963–1994; Tom Flanagan, Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and Preston Manning; Trevor Harrison, Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada, reviewed by John Bolt - 566 / Karl Barth, The Theology of John Calvin, reviewed by Raymond A. Blacketer - 571 / Colin E. Gunton, A Brief Theology of Revelation, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 574 / Garth L. Hallett, Greater Good: The Case for Proportionalism, reviewed by Kent Van Til - 576 / D. G. Hart and John Muether, Fighting the Good Fight: A Brief History of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 579 / Serene Jones, Calvin and the Rhetoric of Piety, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 582 / Colleen McDannell, Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America, reviewed by William D. Romanowski - 583 / Tarek Mitri, Religion, Law and Society: A Christian-Muslim Discussion, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 585 / Jacob Neusner, Israel After Calamity: The Book of Lamentations (The Bible of Judaism Library), reviewed by James C. VanderKam - 589 / T. H. L. Parker, Calvin: An Introduction to His Thought, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 590 / Daniel Patte, Ethics of Biblical Interpretation, reviewed by Kent Van Til - 590 / D. G. Paz, ed., Nineteenth-Century English Religious Traditions: Retrospect and Prospect, reviewed by Jacob Ellens - 594 / Erika Rummel, The Humanist-Scholastic Debate in the Renaissance and Reformation, reviewed by Martin I. Klauber - 597 / Terry Schlossberg and Elizabeth Achtemeier, Not My Own: Abortion & the Marks of the Church, reviewed by John Bolt - 599 / Masao Tekenaka, The Place Where God Dwells: An Introduction to Church Architecture in Asia, reviewed by Edward A. Van Baak - 601 / James F. White, Roman Catholic Worship: Trent to Today, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 602 / Dawn DeVries, Jesus Christ in the Preaching of Calvin and Schleiermacher, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 603 / Barry Liesch, The New Worship: Straight Talk on Music and the Church, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 607 / Douglas F. Ottati, Jesus Christ and Christian Vision and Reforming Protestantism, reviewed by Kent Van Til - 608 / Jaroslav Pelikan, The Reformation of the Bible / The Bible of the Reformation, reviewed by Raymond A. Blacketer - 613 / Michael P. Winship, Seers of God: Puritan Providentialism in the Restoration and Early Enlightenment, reviewed by P. C. Kemeny - 615 / Peter Wyatt, Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 618 / Book Notices - 621
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 31 No 1 - April 1996)

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Editorial: John Bolt – 9 / Evolution by Abraham Kuyper – 11 / In the Shadow of Mt. Kuyper: A Survey of the Field by James D. Bratt – 51 / From Covenant of Grace to Equitable Public Pluralism: The Dutch Calvinist Contribution by James W. Skillen – 67 / Abraham Kuyper and the Cult of True Womanhood: An Analysis of De Eerepositie Der Vrouw by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen – 97 / Calvin and the "Calvinists": Assessing Continuities and Discontinuities Between the Reformation and Orthodoxy (2) by Richard A. Muller – 125 / Spiritual Knowledge According to Jonathan Edwards by Miklos Veto (trans. Michael J. McClymond) – 161 / Scholia: Learning from the "Splits": Some Reflections on Dutch Calvinist Diversity by Richard J. Mouw – 182 / Does the Church Today Need a New "Mission Paradigm"? by John Bolt and Richard A. Muller – 196 / Book Reviews - John Lee Thompson, John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, His Predecessors, and His Contemporaries, reviewed by Barbara Pitkin – 209 / Bernard McGinn, The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, Vol. I, The Foundations of Mysticism, reviewed by Richard A. Muller – 212 / Keith Ward, Defending the Soul, reviewed by Jeffrey H. Boyd – 213 / William Christian, George Grant: A Biography, reviewed by Richard J. Plantinga – 216 / Peter E. Gillquist et al., eds., The Orthodox Study Bible: New Testament and Psalms, reviewed by James B. Payton Jr. – 218 / Ellis R. Brotzman, Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Practical Introduction, reviewed by Michael J. Williams – 220 / R. Alastair Campbell, The Elders: Seniority Within Earliest Christianity, reviewed by Henry De Moor – 223 / Daniel B. Clendenin, Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective, reviewed by James B. Payton Jr. – 227 / Kenneth Cragg, Troubled by Truth: Biographies in the Presence of Mystery, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany – 230 / James L. Crenshaw, Trembling at the Threshold of a Biblical Text, reviewed by Scott Hoezee – 234 / Stephen H. Daniel, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics, reviewed by Amy Plantinga Pauw – 236 / John W. De Gruchy and Charles Villa Vicencio, eds., Theology and Praxis, Vol. 1, Doing Theology in Context: South African Perspectives, reviewed by Robert R. Recker – 238 / Eleazar S. Fernandez, Toward a Theology of Struggle, reviewed by George K. Heartwell – 240 / Ronald B. Flowers, That Godless Court? Supreme Court Decisions on Church-State Relationships, reviewed by James W. Skillen – 241 / Mark Galli and Craig Brian Larson, Preaching That Connects: Using the Techniques of Journalists to Add Impact to Your Sermons, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus – 242 / H. G. Geertsema et al., eds., Herman Dooyeweerd, Breedte en Actualiteit van zijn Filosofie, reviewed by Daniel F. M. Strauss – 246 / K. M. George, The Silent Roots: Orthodox Perspectives on Christian Spirituality, reviewed by James B. Payton Jr. – 251 / Robert Jewett, Paul the Apostle to America: Cultural Trends and Pauline Scholarship, reviewed by Willis R. DeBoer – 254 / David Clyde Jones, Biblical Christian Ethics, reviewed by Kent Van Til – 257 / Ken Kaisch, Finding God: A Handbook of Christian Meditation, reviewed by Tom Schwanda – 258 / Gennadios Limouris, ed., Orthodox Visions of Ecumenism: Statements, Messages and Reports on the Ecumenical Movement 1902–1992, reviewed by James B. Payton Jr. – 261 / Alister McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction; Alister McGrath, ed., The Christian Theology Reader, reviewed by Richard J. Plantinga – 262 / Richard J. Mouw, Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion; Mark A. Noll, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind; David F. Wells, God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, reviewed by John Bolt – 264 / Robert E. Webber, Worship Old and New: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Introduction, rev. ed., reviewed by John D. Witvliet – 268 / Michael Whelan, Living Strings: An Introduction to Biblical Spirituality, reviewed by Tom Schwanda – 269 / David J. Atkinson, David F. Field, Arthur Holmes, and Oliver O’Donovan, eds., New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, reviewed by John Bolt – 270 / Kenneth J. Collins, Soul Care: Deliverance and Renewal Through the Christian Life, reviewed by Jeffrey H. Boyd – 272 / Paul K. Conkin, The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America, reviewed by Arie J. Griffioen – 275 / Randall C. Gleason, John Calvin and John Owen on Mortification: A Comparative Study in Reformed Spirituality, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble – 276 / Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present, reviewed by Robert R. Recker – 278 / Robert M. Kingdon, Adultery and Divorce in Calvin’s Geneva, reviewed by Martin I. Klauber – 282 / Anthony Meredith, The Cappadocians, reviewed by James B. Payton Jr. – 284 / J. Richard Middleton and Brian J. Walsh, Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age, reviewed by John Cooper – 287 / David L. Puckett, John Calvin’s Exegesis of the Old Testament, reviewed by Martin I. Klauber – 293 / D. Brent Sandy and Ronald L. Giese, Jr., eds., Cracking Old Testament Codes: A Guide to Interpreting the Literary Genres of the Old Testament, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus – 294 / Henry Stob, Summoning Up Remembrance, reviewed by J. Harold Ellens – 299 / James W. Wiles, A Scripture Index to the Works of St. Augustine in English Translation, reviewed by Richard A. Muller – 301 / Davis A. Young, The Biblical Flood: A Case Study of the Church’s Response to Extrabiblical Evidence, reviewed by Harry Cook – 302 / Book Notices – 306
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 30 No 2 - November 1995)

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Editorial by John Bolt - 343 / Calvin and the "Calvinists": Assessing Continuities and Discontinuities between the Reformation and Orthodoxy by Richard A. Muller - 345 / The Use of Philosophy in the Theology of Johannes Maccovius (1578–1644) by Martin I. Klauber - 376 / "Heaven Is a World of Love": Edwards on Heaven and the Trinity by Amy Plantinga Pauw - 392 / Doctrinal Development in Scripture and Tradition: A Reformed Assessment of the Church's Theological Task by Mark W. Karlberg - 401 / Calvin Bibliography: 1995 by Peter De Klerk - 419 / Scholia: Is Homosexuality a "General" Sexual Disorder?: An Exchange by David F. Wright and Melvin D. Hugen - 448 / Post-Modern Evangelical Worship by D. G. Hart - 451 / The Hermeneutics of Confession and Accusation by Colin Brown - 460 / Losing Soul: How and Why Theologians Created the Mental Health Movement by Jeffrey H. Boyd - 472 / Book Reviews - Vander Suijs, C. A., Puritanisme en Nadere Reformatie, Een Beknopte Vergelijkende Studie, reviewed by H. David Schuringa - 493 / Clouser, Roy A., The Myth of Religious Neutrality: An Essay on the Hidden Role of Religious Belief in Theories, reviewed by John Cooper - 494 / Robeck, Cecil M., Jr., Prophecy in Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 499 / Spykman, Gordon J., Reformational Theology: A New Paradigm for Doing Theology, reviewed by Guenther ("Gene") Haas - 501 / Aageson, James W., Written Also for Our Sake, Paul and the Art of Biblical Interpretation, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 506 / Barbour, Ian, Ethics in an Age of Technology: The Gifford Lectures, Volume Two, reviewed by Marvin Bolt - 509 / Batalden, Stephen K., ed., Seeking God: The Recovery of Religious Identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 512 / De Greef, Wulfert, The Writings of John Calvin: An Introductory Guide, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 513 / Giberson, Karl, Worlds Apart: The Unholy War Between Religion and Science, reviewed by Delvin L. Ratzsch - 514 / Hummel, Charles E., Fire in the Fireplace: Charismatic Renewal in the Nineties (2nd edition), reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 517 / Kistemaker, Simon J., New Testament Commentary: Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 519 / Levenson, Jon, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism: Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies, reviewed by C. G. Bartholomew - 525 / Lindberg, Carter, Beyond Charity: Reformation Initiatives for the Poor, reviewed by W. Fred Graham - 531 / Murphy, David Graham, Debates on God and Experience in the Netherlands 1965–1989, reviewed by John Bolt - 532 / Norton, David, A History of the Bible as Literature (2 vols.), reviewed by Susan M. Felch - 534 / Patton, John, Pastoral Care in Context: An Introduction to Pastoral Care, reviewed by Peter L. Vankatwyk - 538 / Swaim, Kathleen M., Pilgrim’s Progress, Puritan Progress: Discourses and Contexts, reviewed by Dennis R. Danielson - 539 / Winter, Bruce W. and Andrew D. Clarke, eds., The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Vol. 1: Ancient Literary Setting, reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 542 / Albertz, Rainer, A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, Vol. 2: From the Exile to the Maccabees, reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers - 544 / Barr, William R. and Rena M. Yocom, eds., The Church in the Movement of the Spirit, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 548 / Brown, Delwin, Boundaries of Our Habitations: Tradition and Theological Construction, reviewed by Clark H. Pinnock - 549 / Brown, Stuart, The Nearest in Affection: Towards a Christian Understanding of Islam, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 551 / Calvin, John, Sermons on Job (facsimile, 1993), reviewed by J. R. Beeke - 554 / Coogan, Michael D., J. Cheryl Exum, and Lawrence E. Stager, eds., Scripture and Other Artifacts: Essays on the Bible and Archaeology in Honor of Philip J. King, reviewed by Neal Bierling - 556 / Enroth, Ronald M., Recovering from Churches That Abuse, reviewed by Louis M. Tamminga - 557 / Farmer, William R., The Gospel of Jesus: The Pastoral Relevance of the Synoptic Problem, reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 559 / Gelpi, Donald L., S.J., The Turn to Experience in Contemporary Theology, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 562 / Greenhill, William, An Exposition of Ezekiel, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 563 / Habegger, Alfred, The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr., reviewed by Nick Overduin - 566 / Houston, J., Reported Miracles: A Critique of Hume, reviewed by Colin Brown - 570 / Kuyvenhoven, Andrew, Twilight: Daily Readings with the Bible, reviewed by Tymen E. Hofman - 572 / Lai, Pan-Chiu, Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich's Thought, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 573 / Linn, Gerhard, ed., Hear What the Spirit Says to the Churches: Towards Missionary Congregations in Europe, reviewed by Aaron R. Kayayan - 578 / Mallard, William, Language and Love: Introducing Augustine's Religious Thought Through the Confessions Story, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 580 / Pearcey, Nancy R. and Charles B. Thaxton, The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy, reviewed by Clarence Menninga - 585 / Pinnock, Clark, Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker, and David Basinger, The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 589 / Pinnock, Clark H. and Robert C. Brow, Unbounded Love: A Good News Theology for the 21st Century, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 593 / Placher, William C., Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology, and Scripture, reviewed by Scott Hoezee - 597 / Rae, Murray, Hilary Regan, and John Stenhouse, eds., Science and Theology: Questions at the Interface, reviewed by Clarence Menninga - 600 / Reiser, William, Looking for a God to Pray To: Christian Spirituality in Transition; McGrath, Alister E., Spirituality in an Age of Change: Rediscovering the Spirit of the Reformers, reviewed by Tom Schwanda - 602 / Werpehowski, William and Stephen D. Crocco, eds., The Essential Paul Ramsey: A Collection, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 604 / Ridderbos, J., Strijd op twee fronten: Schilder en de gereformeerde 'elite' in de jaren 1993–1945 tussen aanpassing, collaboratie en verzet op kerkelijk en politiek terrein. Deel 1 & 2, reviewed by Richard Reitsma - 607 / Shanks, Hershel, Stephen Patterson, Marcus Borg, and John Dominic Crossan, eds., The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels; Strimple, Robert B., The Modern Search for the Real Jesus: An Introductory Survey in the Historical Roots of Gospels Criticism; Harris, Murray J., Three Crucial Questions About Jesus, reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 613 / Van Der Walt, B. J., Venster op die Kunste: Christelike Perspektiewe [A Window on the Arts: Christian Perspectives], reviewed by Chris Stoffel Overvoorde - 615 / Witherington, Ben, III, Paul's Narrative Thought World: The Tapestry of Tragedy and Triumph, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 618 / World Council of Churches, Crisis and Challenge of the Ecumenical Movement: A Statement of the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Strasbourg, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 623 / Larsen, David L., Telling the Old, Old Story: The Art of Narrative Preaching, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 624 / Oden, Thomas C., Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements, reviewed by John Bolt - 625 / Plantinga, Cornelius, Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin, reviewed by Scott E. Hoezee - 627 / Schmidt, Thomas E., Straight & Narrow? Compassion and Clarity in the Homosexual Debate, reviewed by John Bolt - 630 / Book Notices - 633 / Thesis Abstracts - 654
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 30 No 1 - April 1995)

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Editorial: John Bolt - 9 / Covenant and Creation: Covenant Overload or Covenantal Deconstruction by Craig G. Bartholomew - 11 / The Relation Between Creation and Redemption in Romans 8:18–27 by John Bolt - 34 / Augustine’s Theory of Concupiscence in City of God, Book XIV by James B. Weidenaar - 52 / Searching for “Disconnected Wires”: Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Creation Revisited by Syd Hielema - 75 / General Revelation and Science: Reflections on a Remark in Report 28 by Nicolaas H. Gootjes - 94 / The Effects of the Fall on Creational Social Structures: A Comparison of Anabaptist and Reformed Perspectives by Guenther Haas - 108 / Eschaton, Creation, and Social Ethics by Miroslav Volf - 130 / Creation, Eschaton, and Social Ethics: A Response to Volf by Douglas J. Schuurman - 144 / Scholia: The Myth of “Decretal Theology” by Richard A. Muller - 159 / Turning Toward Tomorrow: An Educational Agenda for the Church by Robert C. De Vries - 168 / The Vitality of Reformed Preaching by H. David Schuringa - 184 / The Greening of Spirituality: A Review Article by John Bolt - 194 / Book Reviews: Adams, Jay E., Truth Applied: Application in Preaching, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus - 212 / Raiser, Konrad, Ecumenism in Transition: A Paradigm Shift in the Ecumenical Movement?, reviewed by Paul Schrotenboer - 214 / Boyd, Gregory A., Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 221 / Drummond, Lewis A., The Word of the Cross: A Contemporary Theology of Evangelism, reviewed by David Feddes - 222 / Edwards, James R., New International Biblical Commentary: Romans, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 224 / Marcus, J., The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 228 / Oden, Thomas C., Life in the Spirit, Systematic Theology, Vol. 3, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 230 / Thiselton, Anthony C., New Horizons in Hermeneutics, reviewed by Colin Brown - 232 / Blumhofer, Edith L., Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 237 / Carnley, Peter, The Structure of Resurrection Belief, reviewed by Colin Brown - 239 / Charles, Thomas, Thomas Charles’ Spiritual Counsels: Selected from His Letters and Papers by Edward Morgan, reviewed by Joel R. Beeke - 242 / Davies, Bob, and Lori Rentzel, Coming Out of Homosexuality, reviewed by Wayne Joosse - 244 / Deere, Jack, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 246 / Ellacuría, Ignacio, and Jon Sobrino, eds., Mysterium Liberationis: Fundamental Concepts of Liberation Theology, reviewed by Frank Sawyer - 247 / Evans, C. Stephen, and Merold Westphal, eds., Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, reviewed by Kelly James Clark - 248 / Gifford, Paul, Christianity and Politics in Doe’s Liberia, reviewed by Jan H. Boer - 253 / Gundry, R. H., Mark: A Commentary on His Apology for the Cross, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 254 / James, John Angell, An Earnest Ministry: The Want of the Times, reviewed by Joel R. Beeke - 258 / Lee, D. John, ed., Storying Ourselves: A Narrative Perspective on Christians in Psychology, reviewed by J. Harold Ellens - 259 / Muller, Richard S., Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2, Holy Scripture: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, reviewed by W. J. Van Asselt - 260 / Smedes, Lewis B., Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don’t Deserve, reviewed by Wayne Joosse - 264 / Stackhouse, John G., Jr., Canadian Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century: An Introduction to Its Character, reviewed by K. J. Stewart - 265 / Stronks, Gloria Goris, and Doug Blomberg, eds., A Vision with a Task: Christian Schooling for Responsible Discipleship, reviewed by John Vriend - 267 / Thiessen, Elmer, Teaching for Commitment: Liberal Education, Indoctrination, and Christian Nurture, reviewed by Lee Hollaar - 270 / Witten, Marsha G., All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism, reviewed by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. - 278 / Best, Thomas F., and Günther Gassmann, eds., On the Way to Fuller Koinonia: Official Report of the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order, reviewed by Adrian A. Helleman - 281 / Chapell, Bryan, Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus - 282 / Floyd, Wayne Whitson, Jr., and Charles Marsh, eds., Theology and the Practice of Responsibility: Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Huntemann, Georg, The Other Bonhoeffer: An Evangelical Reassessment of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, reviewed by Ray S. Anderson - 286 / Foote, Catherine J., Survivor Prayers: Talking with God about Childhood Sexual Abuse, reviewed by Beth A. Swagman - 291 / Long, Thomas G., and Cornelius Plantinga, eds., A Chorus of Witnesses: Model Sermons for Today’s Preacher, reviewed by Roger Van Harn - 292 / Noll, Mark A., David W. Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk, eds., Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles and Beyond, 1700–1900; Rawlyk, George A., and Mark A. Noll, eds., Amazing Grace: Evangelicalism in Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States, reviewed by K. J. Stewart - 296 / Rosas, L. Joseph, III, Scripture in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard, reviewed by Colin Brown - 299 / Wiersbe, Warren W., Be Myself: Memoirs of a Bridgebuilder, reviewed by John Bratt - 301 / Book Notices - 303
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 29 No 2 - November 1994)

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Articles: Remembering John Kromminga by Henry Zwaanstra - 340 / Apology of John Calvin, to Messrs. the Nicodemites upon the Complaint That They Make of His Too Great Rigor (1544) translated by Eric Kayayan - 346 / Within Proper Limits: Basic Features of John Calvin's Theological Epistemology by Cornelis van der Kooi - 364 / Calvin (and Zwingli) on Divine Providence by Paul Helm - 388 / Not "Hidden and Far Off": The Bodily Aspect of Salvation and Its Implications for Understanding the Body in Calvin's Theology by Thomas J. Davis - 406 / John Calvin's Humanist Image of Popular Late-Medieval Piety and Its Contribution to Reformed Worship by Philip W. Butin - 419 / The Nature of Calvin's Rejection of Papal Primacy by Adrian A. Helleman - 432 / Calvin Bibliography: 1994 by Peter De Klerk - 451 / Scholia: Truth and Compassion in the Church's Ministry to Homosexual Persons by Melvin D. Hugen - 486 / Satan Is Alive and Well in Contemporary Imagination: A Bibliographic Essay with Notes on "Hell" and "Spiritual Warfare" by John Bolt - 497 / Church Order of the United Protestant Church in the Netherlands translated by Henry De Moor - 507 / Book Reviews: Harlan R. Beckley and Charles M. Swezey, eds., James M. Gustafson's Theocentric Ethics: Interpretations and Assessments, reviewed by Paul Lewis - 521 / Alan F. Johnson and Robert E. Webber, What Christians Believe: A Biblical and Historical Summary, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 523 / Gerald W. McCulloh, Christ's Person and Life-Work in the Theology of Albrecht Ritschl with Special Attention to "Munus Triplex", reviewed by Cornelis P. Venema - 525 / John R. Schneider, Philip Melanchthon's Rhetorical Construal of Biblical Authority, Oratio Sacra, reviewed by Robert Kolb - 529 / John Stott, The Spirit, the Church, and the World: The Message of Acts, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 531 / James Montgomery Boice, Romans, Volume 1: Justification by Faith, Romans 1-4, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 534 / Robert B. Coote, In Defense of Revolution: The Elohist History; John Van Seters, Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis, reviewed by Gary Knoppers - 536 / Harold A. Netland, Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism and the Question of Truth, reviewed by Roger S. Greenway - 542 / Craig L. Blomberg, Matthew (New American Commentary Series), reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 546 / Paul Brockelman, The Inside Story: A Narrative Approach to Religious Understanding and Truth; Richard A. Jenson, Thinking in Story: Preaching in a Post-Literate Age, reviewed by John Bolt - 548 / Don S. Browning and Francis Schussler Fiorenza, eds., Habermas, Modernity, and Public Theology; Robert P. Scharlemann, ed., Negation and Theology, reviewed by James H. Olthuis - 550 / Larry Dixon, The Other Side of the Good News, reviewed by Clark H. Pinnock - 554 / David S. Dockery, ed., Holman Bible Handbook, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 555 / Burnell F. Eckhardt, Jr., Anselm and Luther on the Atonement: Was It "Necessary"?, reviewed by Robert Kolb - 556 / Bruce Gordon, Clerical Discipline and the Rural Reformation. The Synod in Zurich, 1532-1580 (Zuricher Beitrage zur Reformationsgeschichte), reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 558 / The (New) Catechism of the Catholic Church; Catechism of the Catholic Church, reviewed by A. R. Kayayan - 561 / Richard Swinburne, Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 565 / Roger Van Harn, Pew Rights: For People Who Listen to Sermons, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 568 / Theo G. M. van Oorschot, Friedrich Spee van Langenfeld: Zwischen Zorn und Zärtlichkeit, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 570 / Gilbert Bilezikian, Christianity 101: Your Guide to Eight Basic Christian Beliefs, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 571 / Walter Brueggemann, Beverly R. Gaventa, Charles R. Cousar, and James D. Nelson, Texts for Preaching: A Lectionary Commentary Based on the NRSV - Year B, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 573 / Julia Ching, Chinese Religions, reviewed by Edward A. Van Baak - 575 / T. V. Farris, Mighty to Save: A Study in Old Testament Soteriology, reviewed by William T. Koopmans - 577 / John Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate: Christology in a Pluralist Age, reviewed by Clark H. Pinnock - 578 / Philip C. Holtrop, The Bolsec Controversy on Predestination, from 1551 to 1555, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 581 / Michael Jinkins, A Comparative Study in the Theology of Atonement in Jonathan Edwards and John McLeod Campbell: Atonement and the Character of God, reviewed by Leanne Van Dyk - 589 / John Kelsay, Islam and War: A Study in Comparative Ethics, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 591 / James Leehan, Defiant Hope, reviewed by Beth A. Swagman - 595 / John F. MacArthur, Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World; John Seel, The Evangelical Forfeit: Can We Recover?; Os Guinness, Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity; Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis, reviewed by John Bolt - 597 / Daniel C. Maguire, The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity: Reclaiming the Revolution, reviewed by Paul Lewis - 599 / Robin R. Meyers, With Ears to Hear: Preaching as Self-Persuasion, reviewed by John M. Rottman - 600 / Pheme Perkins, Gnosticism and the New Testament, reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 602 / Rudolf van Reest, Schilder's Struggle for the Unity of the Church, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 604 / Thomas Ridgley, Commentary on the Larger Catechism; Previously Entitled A Body of Divinity: Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion Are Explained and Defended, Being the Substance of Several Lectures on the Assembly's Larger Catechism, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 607 / Lamin Sanneh, Encountering the West: Christianity and the Global Cultural Process: The African Dimension, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 609 / Thomas F. Torrance, ed., Theological Dialogue Between Orthodox and Reformed Churches, Volume 2, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 611 / Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Volume 2: Eleventh Through Seventeenth Topics, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 614 / Donald J. Wiseman, 1 & 2 Kings: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries), reviewed by Gary Knoppers - 615 / Randall C. Zachman, The Assurance of Faith: Conscience in the Theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin, reviewed by Joel R. Beeke - 617 / Lillian C. Freudmann, Antisemitism in the New Testament, reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 619 / B. J. van der Walt, The Liberating Message: A Christian Worldview for Africa, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 620 / Book Notices - 622 / Thesis Abstracts - 640
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 29 No 1 - April 1994)

Calvin Theological Seminary

Editorial: John Bolt - 9 / "Covenant" Overload in Reformed Theology by John H. Stek - 12 / The Continuing Conundrum: Calvin and the Conditionality of the Covenant by Peter A. Lillback - 42 / The Covenant of Works and the Stability of Divine Law in Seventeenth-Century Reformed Orthodoxy: A Study in the Theology of Herman Witsius and Wilhelmus à Brakel by Richard A. Muller - 75 / The Doctrine of the Abrogations in the Federal Theology of Johannes Cocceius (1603-1669) by W. J. Van Asselt - 101 / The Perkinsian Moment of Federal Theology by Michael McGiffert - 117 / Foedus Evangelicum: Jerome Zanchi on the Covenant by John L. Farthing - 149 / Scholia: Erosion at the Font by Henry De Moor - 168 / An Outline of a Contemporary Covenant Theology by Adrio Konig - 180 / The Covenant's Missiological Character by Craig Van Gelder - 190 / Keeping Denominational Covenant in the Reformed Confessional Tradition by Tymen E. Hofman - 198 / Book Reviews: Gerrits, G. H., Inter Timorem et Spem: A Study of the Theological Thought of Gerard Zerbot of Zutphen (1367-1398), reviewed by Joel R. Beeke - 209 / Luz, Ulrich, Matthew 1-7, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 211 / Van Huyssteen, Wentzel, Theology and the Justification of Faith: Constructing Theories in Systematic Theology, reviewed by Cornelis Venema - 213 / Verburg, Marcel E., Herman Dooyeweerd: Leven en Werk van een Nederlands Christen-Wijsgeer, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 221 / Young, Brad H., Jesus and His Jewish Parables: Rediscovering the Roots of Jesus' Teaching, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 226 / Greschat, Martin, Martin Bucer: Ein Reformator und seine Zeit, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 228 / Augustijn, Cornelis, Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 231 / Brooke, John Hedley, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives, reviewed by Marvin Bolt - 233 / Castelli, Elizabeth A., Imitating Paul: A Discourse of Power, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 236 / Curtis, Susan, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, reviewed by James D. Bratt - 240 / De Gruchy, John W., Liberating Reformed Theology: A South African Contribution to an Ecumenical Debate, reviewed by Henry I. Lederle - 242 / Donfried, Karl P., ed., The Romans Debate, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 244 / Ferreira, M. Jamie, Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith, reviewed by John D. Morrison - 246 / Hastings, Adrian, ed., Modern Catholicism: Vatican II and After, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 248 / Layman, C. Stephen, The Shape of the Good: Christian Reflections on the Foundation of Ethics, reviewed by Paul Lewis - 251 / Neyrey, Jerome H., ed., The Social World of Luke-Acts, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 253 / Scharlemann, Robert P., The Reason of Following: Christianity and the Ecstatic I, reviewed by John D. Morrison - 256 / Dockery, David S., Biblical Interpretation Then and Now: Contemporary Hermeneutics in the Light of the Early Church, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 260 / Kroes, Rob, The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana, reviewed by Nelle A. Vander Ark - 262 / Moffett, Samuel Hugh, A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. 1, Beginnings to 1500, reviewed by Edward A. Van Baak - 264 / Morneau, Robert F., Spiritual Direction: Principles and Practices, reviewed by Tom F. Schwanda - 268 / Old, Hughes Oliphant, Themes and Variations for a Christian Doxology: Some Thoughts on the Theology of Worship, reviewed by Tom F. Schwanda - 269 / Peterson, David, Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 270 / Rosales, Gaudencio and Catalina Aravalo, eds., For All the Peoples of Asia: Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences Documents from 1970 to 1991, reviewed by Edward A. Van Baak - 273 / Swinnock, George, The Works of George Swinnock, reviewed by Joel R. Beeke - 275 / Wiebe, Ben, Messianic Ethics: Jesus' Proclamation of the Kingdom of God and the Church in Response, reviewed by Edward Laarman - 277 / Boomsma, Clarence, Male and Female, One in Christ: New Testament Teaching on Women in Office, reviewed by Al Wolters - 278 / Carson, D. A., ed., Worship: Adoration and Action, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 286 / Hunt, Michael J., College Catholics: A New Counter-Culture, reviewed by Dale Cooper - 287 / Kreeft, Peter, The Snakebite Letters, reviewed by Calvin Van Reken - 288 / Lundin, Roger, The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World, reviewed by John Cooper - 293 / McKim, Lindajo H., The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, reviewed by Emily R. Brink - 295 / Rambo, Lewis R., Understanding Religious Conversion, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 297 / Van Engen, Charles, Dean S. Gilliland, and Paul Pierson, eds., The Good News of the Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Third Millennium, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 298 / Worthington, Everett L., Jr., ed., Psychotherapy and Religious Values, reviewed by J. Harold Ellens - 300 / Book Notices - 302
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 28 No 2 - November 1993)

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Editorial: The Dutch Connection by John Bolt - 263 / A History of Theology and Spirituality in the Dutch Reformed Churches (Gereformeerde Kerken), 1892-1992 by Jan Veenhof - 266 / The Dutch Second Reformation (Nadere Reformatie) by Joel R. Beeke - 298 / The Catholic Origins and Calvinist Orientation of Dutch Reformed Church Law by John Witte, Jr. - 328 / Scripture Read and Interpreted: The Development of the Doctrine of Scripture and Hermeneutics in Gereformeerde Theology in the Netherlands by H. M. Vroom - 352 / Public Theology? A Current Dutch Discussion by David Graham Murphy - 372 / Calvin Bibliography: 1993 by Peter De Klerk - 393 / Scholia: Insights for the Church from the Dutch Second Reformation by Joel R. Beeke - 420 / How Many Points? by Richard A. Muller - 425 / Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Dutch Reformed Church and Theology: A Review Article by John Bolt / Church, Ministry, and Theology: A Review Article - 434 by James A. De Jong - 443 / Book Reviews: Walter H. Conser, Jr., Church and Confession: Conservative Theologians in Germany, England, and America 1815-1866, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 449 / Alexander Sandor Unghvary, The Hungarian Protestant Reformation in the Sixteenth Century Under the Ottoman Impact, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 451 / Pierre Chaunu, ed., The Reformation, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 455 / Pierre Babin (with Mercedes Iannone), The New Era in Religious Communication; Janice Peck, The Gods of Televangelism: The Crisis of Meaning and the Appeal of Religious Television, reviewed by Quentin J. Schultze - 457 / Gerhard Brendler, trans. Claude R. Foster, Jr., Martin Luther: Theology and Revolution, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 460 / Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, reviewed by James D. Bratt - 464 / James W. Fowler, Karl Ernest Nipkow, and Friedrich Schweitzer, Stages of Faith and Religious Development: Implications for Church, Education, and Society; Leroy Aden, David G. Benner, and J. Harold Ellens, eds., Christian Perspectives of Human Development, reviewed by Robert C. De Vries - 465 / Roger E. Hedlund, The Mission of the Church in the World: A Biblical Theology, reviewed by Arie C. Leder - 468 / Dewey J. Hoitenga, Jr., Faith and Reason from Plato to Plantinga, reviewed by Arvin Vos - 469 / James Turner Johnson and George Weigel, Just War and the Gulf War, reviewed by John E. Hare - 473 / Harold Kasimow and Byron L. Sherwin, eds., No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue, reviewed by Mark Stover - 476 / Konrad Raiser, Ecumenism in Transition: A Paradigm Shift in the Ecumenical Movement?, reviewed by Richard L. van Houten - 478 / Douglas J. Schuurman, Creation, Eschaton, and Ethics: The Ethical Significance of the Creation-Eschaton Relation in the Thought of Emil Brunner and Jurgen Moltmann, reviewed by John Bolt - 481 / Tom Sine, Wild Hope: Crises Facing the Human Community on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century, reviewed by Brian J. Walsh - 484 / Brian J. Walsh, Langdon Gilkey: Theologian for a Culture in Decline, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 486 / David W. Augsburger, Conflict Mediation Across Cultures: Pathways and Patterns, reviewed by Peter L. Van Katwyk - 489 / Humberto Belli and Ronald Nash, Beyond Liberation Theology, reviewed by Luis E. Lugo - 490 / James D. Berkley, ed., Leadership Handbooks of Practical Theology, Vol. 1: Word and Worship, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 491 / M. E. Brinkman, ed., 100 Jaar Theologie: Aspecten Van Een Eeuw Theologie in de Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland (1892-1992), reviewed by David Murphy - 492 / Benezet Bujo, African Theology in Its Social Context, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 494 / Ioan P. Couliano, The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism, reviewed by Philip L. Tite - 496 / Rodney Crowell, Musical Pulpits: Clergy and Laypersons Face the Issue of Forced Exits, reviewed by Louis M. Tamminga - 499 / I. John Hesselink, Calvin's Concept of the Law, reviewed by John Bolt - 502 / Richard Lischer, A Theology of Preaching: The Dynamics of the Gospel, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 503 / Ronald H. Nash, Worldviews in Conflict: Choosing Christianity in a World of Ideas, reviewed by Brian J. Walsh - 505 / Mercy Amba Oduyoye and R. A. Kanyoro Musimbi, The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition, and the Church in Africa, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 507 / T. H. L. Parker, Calvin's Preaching, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 510 / William C. Placher and David Willis-Watkins, Belonging to God: A Commentary on a Brief Statement of Faith, reviewed by Donald K. McKim - 511 / Theodore Plantinga, ed., Seeking Our Brothers in the Light: A Plea for Reformed Ecumenicity, reviewed by Remkes Kooistra - 514 / Christoph Schwöbel, God: Action and Revelation, reviewed by Henry Jansen - 517 / Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, Vol. 1: First Through Tenth Topics, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 520 / Felix Wilfred, ed., Leave the Temple: Indian Paths to Human Liberation, reviewed by Daniel Lucas Lukito - 522 / Leonardo Boff, The Path to Hope: Fragments from a Theologian's Journey, reviewed by Roger S. Greenway - 523 / Ronald Cole-Turner, The New Genesis: Theology and the Genetic Revolution, reviewed by Hessel Bouma III - 524 / David H. Kelsey, To Understand God Truly: What's Theological About a Theological School, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 527 / Lindajo H. McKim, The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, reviewed by Emily R. Brink - 530 / Robert Wuthnow, Christianity in the Twenty-First Century, reviewed by Wayne Brouwer - 533 / Book Notices - 536 / Thesis Abstracts - 551
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 28 No 1 - April 1993)

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Editorial by John Bolt - 7 / The Discipline of Ethics in Early Reformed Orthodoxy by Donald Sinnema - 10 / Christ and the Law in the Ethics of Herman Bavinck by John Bolt - 45 / The Kingdom and Slavery: A Test Case for Social Ethics by Guenther Haas - 74 / Galatians 6:11-18: A Hermeneutical Key to the Galatian Letter by Jeffrey A. D. Weima - 90 / Scholia: Reformed Apologetics and the Challenge of Post-Modern Relativism by John W. Cooper - 108 / Preaching and the New Literary Studies of the Bible by Stanley Greidanus - 121 / Schism and Property Settlement by Henry De Moor - 131 / The Ethics of Evangelism by Roger S. Greenway - 147 / Christian Love and Offending the "Weak": A Review Article by Carl G. Kromminga - 155 / Hart's Exegetical Proposal on Romans 1 by Albert Wolters - 166 / Reply to Wolters by Hendrik Hart - 170 / Book Reviews - Pétrement, Simone, A Separate God: The Christian Origins of Gnosticism, reviewed by Philip L. Tite - 175 / Sell, Alan P. F., Dissenting Thought and the Life of the Churches: Studies in an English Tradition, reviewed by Jacob P. Ellens - 178 / Borg, Marcus J., Jesus: A New Vision, reviewed by Verlyn D. Verbrugge - 181 / Erickson, Millard J., The Word Became Flesh: A Contemporary Incarnational Christology, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 182 / Geisler, Norman L., Thomas Aquinas, reviewed by Arvin Vos - 185 / Offor, George, ed., The Works of John Bunyan, reviewed by Dennis Danielson - 186 / Paris, Peter J., Black Religious Leaders: Conflict in Unity, reviewed by Morris Greidanus - 188 / Schreiner, Susan E., The Theater of His Glory: Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 190 / Volf, Miroslav, Work in the Spirit: Toward a New Theology of Work, reviewed by Lee Hardy - 191 / Ateek, Naim S., Rosemary Radford Ruether and Marc Ellis, eds., Faith and the Intifada: Palestinian Christian Voices, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 196 / Bebbington, D. W., Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 200 / Calian, Carnegie Samuel, Theology Without Boundaries: Encounters of Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Tradition, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 203 / Erickson, Millard J., Introducing Christian Doctrine, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 204 / Keshishian, Aram, Conciliar Fellowship: A Common Goal, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 207 / Kroeger, Richard Clark and Catherine Clark Kroeger, I Suffer Not a Woman: Rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11-15 in Light of Ancient Evidence, reviewed by Albert Wolters - 208 / McBrien, Richard P., Report on the Church: Catholicism after Vatican II, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 214 / Newsom, Carol A. and Sharon H. Ringe, eds., The Women's Bible Commentary, reviewed by Christiana de Groot van Houten - 215 / Poole, David N. J., The History of the Covenant Concept from the Bible to Johannes Cloppenburg "De Foedere Dei", reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 217 / Sawyer, Frank, The Poor Are Many: Political Ethics in the Social Encyclicals, Christian Democracy, and Liberation Theology in Latin America, reviewed by Luis E. Lugo - 219 / The Westminster Confession of Faith: An Authentic Modern Version; The Westminster Confession of Faith: A Guide Commentary, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 222
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 27 No 2 - November 1992)

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Editorial: John Bolt - 217 / The Catholicity of Christianity and the Church by Herman Bavinck, translated by John Bolt - 220 / The Limits of Power and Obedience in the Later Calvin by Ralph Keen - 252 / Abraham Kuyper's Philosophy of Science by Del Ratzsch - 277 / Pannenberg's Systematic Theology, Vol. I: A Symposium: I. Introduction by Brian J. Walsh - 304 / II. The Irrelevancy of Theology: Pannenberg and the Quest for Truth by Stanley J. Grenz - 307 / III. Pannenberg on the Truth of Christian Discourse: A Logical Response by Rory A. A. Hinton - 312 / IV. God as True Infinite: Concerns about Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology, Vol. I by James H. Olthuis - 318 / Calvin Bibliography: 1992 by Peter De Klerk - 326 / Scholia: Catholicity and Secession: Three Reviews by Paul G. Schrotenboer, Adrian Helleman, and Brother Jeffrey Gros - 353 / Resources for AIDS Ministry: A Bibliographic Essay by Melvin D. Hugen - 362 / Some "Further" Reflections on Church and World, Worship and Evangelism by Craig Van Gelder - 372 / Effective Christian Education: Report on a Recent Study by Robert DeVries - 377 / Book Reviews: Sell, Alan P. F., Defending and Declaring the Faith: Some Scottish Examples (1860–1920), reviewed by W. Stanford Reid - 384 / Mouton, J., A. G. van Aarde, and W. S. Vorster, eds., Paradigms and Progress in Theology, reviewed by David W. Hall - 386 / Schreiter, Robert J., and Mary C. Hilkert, eds., The Praxis of Christian Experience: An Introduction to the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 388 / Barbour, Ian G., Religion in an Age of Science: The Gifford Lectures, Volume 1, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 390 / Bebbington, David, Patterns in History: A Christian Perspective on Historical Thought; Kselman, Thomas, ed., Belief in History: Innovative Approaches to European and American Religion, reviewed by Jacob P. Ellens - 394 / Davies, Horton, The Worship of the American Puritans, 1629–1730, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 398 / Hagen, Kenneth, ed., Augustine, the Harvest, and Theology (1300–1650): Essays Dedicated to Heiko Augustinus Oberman in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday; Steinmetz, David C., ed., The Bible in the Sixteenth Century, reviewed by Joel E. Kok - 400 / Kistemaker, Simon J., Exposition of the Acts of the Apostles (New Testament Commentary Series), reviewed by Richard N. Longenecker - 402 / Longenecker, Richard N., Galatians (Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 41), reviewed by Willis P. De Boer - 403 / Marshall, I. Howard, Jesus the Savior (Studies in New Testament Theology), reviewed by Willis P. De Boer - 408 / Mouw, Richard J., The God Who Commands, reviewed by Edward Langerak - 411 / Beckwith, Francis J., and Norman L. Geisler, Matters of Life and Death: Calm Answers to Tough Questions about Abortion and Euthanasia, reviewed by Hessel Bouma III - 414 / Begbie, Jeremy S., Voicing Creation's Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts, reviewed by Corina A. Bos, Michael John Kooy, and Mary Leigh Morbey - 418 / Bria, Ion, The Sense of Ecumenical Tradition: The Ecumenical Witness and Vision of the Orthodox, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 421 / Cragg, Kenneth, The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 422 / Darr, Katheryn Pfisterer, Far More Precious than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women, reviewed by Morris N. Greidanus - 426 / Edwards, Denis, Jesus and the Cosmos, reviewed by Dina Castro de Knibbs - 427 / Elwell, Walter A., ed., The Concise Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 428 / Flew, Anthony G. N., and Terry Miethe, Does God Exist?, reviewed by J. Matthew Bonzo - 429 / Franklin, R. William, and Joseph M. Shaw, The Case for Christian Humanism, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 431 / Gaddy, C. Welton, A Soul Under Siege: Surviving Clergy Depression, reviewed by Louis M. Tamminga - 433 / Griffin, David Ray, Evil Revisited, reviewed by John M. Frame - 435 / Harris, Murray J., Colossians and Philemon (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament), reviewed by Jeffrey A. D. Weima - 438 / Hawthorne, Gerald F., The Presence and the Power, reviewed by Dean Deppe - 441 / Hoffman, Virginia Curran, The Codependent Church, reviewed by Mary Vander Goot - 442 / Jones, Stanton L., and Richard E. Butman, Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal, reviewed by Mary Vander Goot - 445 / Kreeft, Peter, Prayer, the Great Conversation: Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Prayer, reviewed by Jack Westerhof - 447 / Kung, Hans, Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic, reviewed by Craig Van Gelder - 448 / Lebacqz, Karen, and Ronald G. Barton, Sex in the Parish, reviewed by Louis M. Tamminga - 449 / Mangrum, Bryan D., and Giuseppe Scavizzi, eds., A Reformation Debate: Karlstadt, Emser, and Eck on Sacred Images, Three Treatises in Translation (Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, Vol. 5), reviewed by Calvin Augustine Pater - 451 / Mellema, Gregory, Beyond the Call of Duty: Supererogation, Obligation, and Offence, reviewed by Caroline J. Simon - 453 / Noll, Mark A., Between Faith and Criticism: Evangelicals, Scholarship, and the Bible in America, reviewed by Guenther (Gene) Haas - 456 / Noll, Mark A., ed., Confessions and Catechisms of the Reformation, reviewed by Lyle D. Bierma - 458 / Polkinghorne, John, Reason and Reality: The Relationship between Science and Theology, reviewed by Del Ratzsch - 460 / Van Rheenen, Gailyn, Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 462 / Schaull, Richard, The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenges of Today, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 465 / Schreiter, Robert J., ed., Faces of Jesus in Africa, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 466 / Sheldrake, Philip, Spirituality & History: Questions of Interpretation and Method; Rice, Howard L., Reformed Spirituality: An Introduction for Believers, reviewed by Carl Kammeraad - 469 / Stam, Clarence, Living in the Joy of Faith: The Christian Faith as Outlined in the Heidelberg Catechism, reviewed by Carl G. Kromminga - 470 / Van der Walt, B. J., ed., Kultuurverscheidenheid in Afrika: Verleentheid of geleentheid? [Cultural Diversity in Africa: Embarrassment or Opportunity?], reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 473 / Van Engen, Charles, God's Missionary People: Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church, reviewed by Craig Van Gelder - 475 / Van Olst, E. H., The Bible and Liturgy, reviewed by Henry Boonstra - 477 / Wynn, J. C., Family Therapy in Pastoral Ministry, reviewed by Kwanjik Lee - 478 / Coalter, Milton J., John M. Mulder, and Louis B. Weeks, eds., The Pluralistic Vision: Presbyterians and Mainstream Education and Leadership; Coalter, Milton J., John M. Mulder, and Louis B. Weeks, eds., The Organizational Revolution: Presbyterians and American Denominationalism, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 482 / Geyer, Alan, and Barbara Green, Line in the Sand: Justice and the Gulf War, reviewed by John E. Hare - 483 / Zandstra, Gerald, and Winnabelle Gritter, Daughters Who Dared: Answering God's Call to Nigeria, reviewed by Geraldine J. VandenBerg - 486 / Book Notices - 488 / Thesis Abstracts - 501
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 27 No 1 - April 1992)

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Editorial: By John Bolt - 7 / Articles: “A Kingship and Priests”: Inaugurated Eschatology in the Apocalypse by Andrew J. Bandstra - 10 / On Unity and Truth: Martin Bucer’s Sermon on John 17 by James R. Payton, Jr. - 26 / Faith and Assurance in the Heidelberg Catechism and Its Primary Composers: A Fresh Look at the Kendall Thesis by Joel R. Beeke - 39 / Humanity in Reformed and Feminist Perspectives: Collision or Correlation? by Douglas J. Schuurman - 68 / Scholia: Herman Bavinck on Scripture and Science, translated by Al Wolters - 91 / Some Reflections on Church and World, Worship and Evangelism by John Bolt - 96 / Book Reviews: Leon Morris, New Testament Theology, reviewed by William D. Dennison - 102 / David J. Diephouse, Pastors and Pluralism in Wurttemberg 1918–1933, reviewed by Lothar Coenen - 106 / Timothy George, Theology of the Reformers, reviewed by Richard A. Muller - 109 / Wilkie Au, By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality, reviewed by James H. Olthuis - 111 / David J. A. Clines, Job 1–20 (Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 17), reviewed by Elmer B. Smick - 113 / Alan C. Clifford, Atonement and Justification: English Evangelical Theology 1640–1790—An Evaluation, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 116 / Jelle Faber, Essays in Reformed Doctrine, reviewed by Fred H. Klooster - 118 / Timothy George and David S. Dockery, eds., Baptist Theologians, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 121 / Fred H. Klooster, A Mighty Comfort: The Christian Faith According to the Heidelberg Catechism, reviewed by Joel R. Beeke - 125 / David S. Leucke, New Designs for Church Leadership, reviewed by Earl D. Dykema - 128 / Arthur Peacocke, Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming—Natural and Divine, reviewed by David W. Hall - 130 / Charles A. Wanamaker, Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 133 / Richard E. Wentz, Religion in the New World: The Shaping of Religious Traditions in the United States, reviewed by Arie J. Griffioen - 138 / Perry H. Biddle, ed., Preaching the Lectionary: A Workbook for Year C, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 139 / Arie R. Brouwer, Ecumenical Testimony, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 140 / Donald W. Dayton and Robert K. Johnston, eds., The Variety of American Evangelicalism, reviewed by James Bratt - 142 / Marjorie Greene, Descartes Among the Scholastics, reviewed by David W. Hall - 143 / Colin E. Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology, reviewed by John Bolt - 145 / Brian V. Hillis, Can Two Walk Together Unless They Be Agreed? American Religious Schisms in the 1970s, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 147 / David H. Hopper, Technology, Theology, and the Idea of Progress, reviewed by Lambert J. Van Poolen - 149 / Christopher Kaiser, Creation and the History of Science, reviewed by Marvin Bolt - 153 / Jack P. Lewis, The English Bible from KJV to NIV, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 155 / Douglas Moo, Romans 1–8 (The Wycliffe Exegetical Commentary), reviewed by Randal A. Argall - 157 / Richard A. Muller, God, Creation, and Providence in the Thought of Jacob Arminius: Sources and Directions of Scholastic Protestantism in the Era of Early Orthodoxy, reviewed by Martin I. Klauber - 163 / Richard John Neuhaus, ed., The Structure of Freedom: Correlations, Causes, and Cautions, reviewed by Gordon Spykman - 165 / Wolfhart Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology, reviewed by Clark H. Pinnock - 167 / Neal Robinson, Christ in Islam and Christianity, reviewed by Bassam M. Madany - 168 / Herbert Schlossberg, A Fragrance of Oppression, reviewed by Joel Nederhood - 171 / Jeffrey S. Siker, Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christian Controversy, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 173 / R. S. Sugirtharajah, ed., Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, reviewed by Arie C. Leder - 177 / Mark Kline Taylor, ed., Paul Tillich: Theologian of the Boundaries, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 178 / Johanna W. H. Van Wijk-Bos, Reformed and Feminist: A Challenge to the Church, reviewed by Alyce Oosterhuis - 181 / Book Notices - 185
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 26 No 2 - November 1991)

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A Tribute and Thanks by John Bolt - 311 / East Friesland and the Reformed Reformation by James Tanis - 313 / Hendrikus Berkhof and Theological Appeals to Experience by David Graham Murphy - 350 / Eschatological Hermeneutics, Women's Ordination, and the Reformed Tradition by John Bolt - 370 / Calvin Bibliography: 1991 by Peter De Klerk - 389 / Scholia: Postmodernism as an Emerging Worldview by Craig Van Gelder - 412 / Postscript to "Partners of the Deity" by Al Wolters - 418 / Book Reviews - Fowler, Stuart, Christian Educational Distinctives, reviewed by John Van Dyk - 421 / Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison, The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, Vol. 1, Matthew 1-7 (The International Critical Commentary), reviewed by Thomas R. Wolthuis - 423 / Krieg, Robert A., Story-Shaped Christology: The Role of Narratives in Identifying Jesus Christ, reviewed by John R. Schneider - 425 / Lee, Bernard J., The Galilean Jewishness of Jesus, Retrieving the Jewish Origins of Christianity, reviewed by Thomas R. Wolthuis - 429 / Achtemeier, Elizabeth, Preaching from the Old Testament, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus - 430 / Elwell, Walter A., gen. ed., Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers - 434 / Hoekema, Anthony A., Saved by Grace, reviewed by Norman Shepherd - 437 / McVey, Kathleen E., trans., Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns, reviewed by Emily R. Brink - 439 / Wyschogrod, Michael, The Body of Faith: God in the People Israel, reviewed by Mark Stover - 440 / Best, Thomas F., ed., Faith and Order 1985-1989: The Commission at Budapest 1989, reviewed by Richard van Houten - 442 / Bowman, Locke E., Teaching for Christian Hearts, Souls and Minds: A Constructive Holistic Approach to Christian Education, reviewed by Robert C. De Vries - 444 / Caraman, Philip, S.J., Ignatius Loyola: A Biography of the Founder of the Jesuits, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 447 / Cox, James W., The Ministers Manual, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 450 / Chewning, Richard C., John W. Eby, and Shirley J. Roels, Business Through the Eyes of Faith, reviewed by Susan J. Van Weelden - 451 / Curry, Dean C., A World Without Tyranny: Christian Faith and International Politics, reviewed by James W. Skillen - 454 / Griffioen, Sander, and Jan Verhoogt, Norm & Context in the Social Sciences, reviewed by Robert L. Maclarkey - 456 / Haught, John F., What is Religion? An Introduction, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 459 / Meeter, H. Henry, The Basic Ideas of Calvinism, reviewed by Guenther H. Haas - 460 / Moltmann, Jürgen, The Way of Jesus Christ: Christology in Messianic Dimensions, reviewed by Scott E. Hoezee - 462 / Oberman, Heiko A., Luther: Man between God and the Devil, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 466 / Piper, John, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, reviewed by H. David Schuringa - 470 / Ryan, Colleen, Beyers Naude: Pilgrimage of Faith, reviewed by Leonard Sweetman - 471 / Sigmund, Paul E., Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution?, reviewed by Clark H. Pinnock - 473 / Smith, Mark S., The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, reviewed by William T. Koopmans - 475 / Steele, Les L., On the Way, reviewed by Robert C. De Vries - 477 / Walsh, David, After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom, reviewed by John Bolt - 480 / Weir, David A., The Origins of the Federal Theology in Sixteenth-Century Reformation Thought, reviewed by Lyle D. Bierma - 483 / Bowden, Henry Warner, Church History in an Age of Uncertainty: Historiographical Patterns in the United States, 1906-1990, reviewed by James D. Bratt - 485 / Longfield, Bradley J., The Presbyterian Controversy: Fundamentalists, Modernists, and Moderates, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 486 / Sell, Alan P. F., A Reformed, Evangelical, Catholic Theology: The Contribution of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1875-1982, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 491 / Williamson, Clark M., and Ronald J. Allen, The Teaching Minister, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 494 / Book Notices - 497 / Thesis Abstracts - 508
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 26 No 1 - April 1991)

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The Immoralities of the Patriarchs in the History of Exegesis: A Reappraisal of Calvin's Position by John L. Thompson - 9 / The Missiology of Gisbertus Voetius: The First Comprehensive Protestant Theology of Missions by Jan Jongeneel - 47 / The New Revised Standard Version: A Preliminary Assessment by John H. Stek - 80 / Linearity in Calvin's Thought by Francis Higman - 100 / A Smoldering Ember: Harry Boer's Continuing Battle with the Reformed Tradition by John Bolt - 111 / Scholia: How Should Heidelberg Catechism Q / A 60 Be Translated? by Lyle D. Bierma - 125 / John Calvin and the Ethics of Gender Relations by Claude-Marie Baldwin - 133 / Biblical and Philosophical Anthropology: A Short Dialogue by Arvin Vos and John W. Cooper - 143 / Aalders on Genesis 1 and 2 trans. Al Wolters - 155 / Book Reviews: Luibheid, Colm, trans., John Cassian: Conferences, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 165 / O'Collins, Gerald, Jesus Risen: An Historical, Fundamental, and Systematic Examination of Christ's Resurrection, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 168 / Boff, Leonardo, Trinity and Society, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 170 / Grudem, Wayne, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today, reviewed by Willis P. De Boer - 173 / Morris, Thomas V., Divine and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism, reviewed by Kenneth Konyndyk - 179 / Myers, Ched, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus, reviewed by Dean Deppe - 182 / Berkhof, Hendrikus, Two Hundred Years of Theology: Report of a Personal Journey, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 186 / Van Ruler, Arnold A., Calvinist Trinitarianism and Theocentric Politics: Essays Toward Public Theology, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 190 / Bouma, Hessel, III, Douglas Diekema, Edward Langerak, Theodore Rottman, and Allen Verhey, Christian Faith, Health & Medical Practice, reviewed by Theodore Minnema - 196 / Burtchaell, James Tunstead, The Giving and Taking of Life: Essays Ethical, reviewed by Douglas S. Diekema - 199 / De Klerk, Peter, ed., Calvin and the Holy Spirit: Sixth Colloquium on Calvin and Calvin Studies, reviewed by M. Eugene Osterhaven - 203 / De Moor, Robert, Quest of Faith: Understanding What You Confess, reviewed by Kenneth Baker - 205 / Erodes, Richard, A.D. 1000: Living on the Brink of Apocalypse, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 207 / Hart, Hendrik, Setting Our Sights by the Morning Star: Reflections on the Role of the Bible in Post-modern Times, reviewed by Philip C. Holtrop - 209 / Hatch, Nathan O., The Democratization of American Christianity, reviewed by David W. Hall - 217 / Johnson, Alan, and Robert Webber, What Christians Believe, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 221 / Perelmuter, Hayim Goren, Siblings: Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity at Their Beginnings, reviewed by Jeffrey A. D. Weima - 224 / Sacks, Francis W., The Philadelphia Baptist Tradition of Church and Church Authority, 1707-1814: An Ecumenical Analysis and Theological Interpretation, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 227 / Sheppard, Gerald T., ed., A Commentary on Galatians by William Perkins, reviewed by David W. Hall - 231 / Thompson, Bard, A Bibliography of Christian Worship, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 234 / Zaharopoulos, Dimitri Z., Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Bible: A Study of His Old Testament Exegesis, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 235 / Blenkinsopp, Joseph, Ezekiel, reviewed by William T. Koopmans - 238 / Loonstra, B., Verkiezing-Versoening-Verbond: Beschrijving en beoordeling van de leer van het pactum salutis in de gereformeerde theologie, reviewed by Hans Boersma - 241 / Gassman, Gunther, Baptism, Eucharist & Ministry 1987-1990: Reports on The Process and Responses; Burgess, Joseph A., ed., Lutherans in Ecumenical Dialogue: A Reappraisal, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 244 / Kiehl, Erich H., The Passion of Our Lord, reviewed by Randal A. Argall - 247 / Lehmann, Karl, and Wolfhart Pannenberg, eds., The Condemnations of the Reformation Era: Do They Still Divide?, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 250 / Nash, Ronald H., The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong with America's Schools, reviewed by Peter P. De Boer - 252 / Neuhaus, Richard John, The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 255 / Polzin, Robert, Samuel and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History: Part Two: I Samuel, reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers - 257 / Reid, Daniel G., et al., eds., Dictionary of Christianity in America, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 261 / Shuster, Robert D., James Stambaugh, and Ferne Weiner, Researching Modern Evangelicalism: A Guide to the Holdings of the Billy Graham Center, With Information on Other Collections, reviewed by David W. Hall - 263 / Stott, John R. W., The Spirit, The Church, and The World: The Message of Acts, reviewed by Jack Westerhof - 265 / Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart, Gender and Grace, reviewed by Alyce Oosterhuis - 268 / Van Till, Howard J., Robert E. Snow, John H. Stek, and Davis A. Young, Portraits of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives on the World's Formation, reviewed by Christopher B. Kaiser - 271 / Gundry-Volf, Judith M., Paul and Perseverance: Staying In and Falling Away, reviewed by Andrew J. Bandstra - 273 / Callahan, Rachel, and Rea McDonnell, Adult Children of Alcoholics: Ministers and Ministries, reviewed by Mark Van Houten - 277
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 25 No 2 - November 1990)

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Articles: Calvin's Doctrine of the Trinity by Thomas F. Torrance - 165 / Interpreting the Classic: The Hermeneutical Character of David Tracy's Theology in the Analogical Imagination by John A. Vissers - 194 / Fides and Cognitio in Relation to the Problem of Intellect and Will in the Theology of John Calvin by Richard A. Muller - 207 / Calvin Bibliography: 1990 by Peter De Klerk - 225 / Scholia: Paul and the Law: Some Recent Developments and an Extraordinary Book by Andrew J. Bandstra - 249 / Book Reviews: Stout, Jeffrey, The Flight from Authority: Religion, Morality, and the Quest for Autonomy; Stout, Jeffrey, Ethics after Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents, reviewed by Allen D. Verhey - 262 / Kistemaker, Simon J., Exposition of the Epistles of Peter and the Epistle of Jude (New Testament Commentary) - 262 / Clowney, Edmund P., The Message of 1 Peter: The Way of the Cross (The Bible Speaks Today), reviewed by Jeffrey A. D. Weima - 267 / Rorem, Paul, ed., Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 269 / Michaels, J. Ramsey, 1 Peter (Word Biblical Commentary), reviewed by Dean Deppe - 272 / Wickeri, Philip, Seeking the Common Ground: Protestant Christianity, The Three-Self Movement, and China's United Front, reviewed by Edward Van Baak - 275 / Wilkinson, John, Christian Ethics in Health Care, reviewed by Allen D. Verhey - 277 / Fogarty, Gerald P., American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History from the Early Republic to Vatican II, reviewed by Arie J. Griffioen - 279 / Hunger, David G., ed., Preaching in the Patristic Age: Studies in Honor of Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., reviewed by Carl E. Zylstra - 280 / Kerr, Hugh T., ed., Calvin's Institutes: A New Compend, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 283 / Lemopoulos, George, ed., Your Will Be Done: Orthodoxy in Mission, reviewed by James R. Payton, Jr. - 284 / Liderbach, Daniel, The Numinous Universe, reviewed by Clarence Menninga - 287 / Long, Thomas G., The Witness of Preaching, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 290 / Mosala, Itumeleng J., Biblical Hermeneutics and Black Theology, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 292 / Lubbers, George C., The Bible versus Millennial Teachings, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 295 / Neuhaus, Richard John, ed., Biblical Interpretation in Crisis: The Ratzinger Conference on Bible and Church, reviewed by Tremper Longman III - 297 / Neusner, Jacob, Invitation to Midrash: The Workings of Rabbinic Bible Interpretation—A Teaching Book, reviewed by Kenneth Pomykala - 299 / Noll, Mark A., Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822, reviewed by David W. Hall - 303 / Saperstein, Marc, Jewish Preaching 1200-1800: An Anthology, reviewed by Vern Vander Zee - 307 / Strain, Charles R., ed., Prophetic Visions and Economic Realities: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics Confront the Bishops' Letter on the Economy, reviewed by Stephen V. Monsma - 310 / Tyndale's New Testament ... 1534, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 313 / White, James F., Protestant Worship: Traditions in Transition, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 316 / Oden, Thomas C., After Modernity ... What? Agenda for Theology, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 318
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 25 No 1 - April 1990)

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Articles: Jean-Alphonse Turrettini on Biblical Accommodation: Calvinist or Socinian by Martin I. Klauber and Glenn S. Sunshine - 7 / "Partners of the Deity": A Covenantal Reading of 2 Peter 1:4 by Al Wolters - 28 / Jesus Christ as the Image of God in Calvin's Theology by Randall C. Zachman - 45 / Scholia: The Puritan Radiance in Edward Taylor by Beth Merizon - 63 / Book Reviews: Maddox, Randy L., Toward an Ecumenical Fundamental Theology, reviewed by John Bolt - 74 / Frank, Douglas W., Less Than Conquerors: How Evangelicals Entered the Twentieth Century, reviewed by Steve Perisho - 75 / Lee, Philip J., Against the Protestant Gnostics, reviewed by Arie J. Griffioen - 82 / De Villiers, Pieter G. R., Like a Roaring Lion: Essays on the Bible, the Church and Demonic Powers, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 84 / Bandow, Doug, Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics, reviewed by John B. Hulst - 86 / Benner, David G., ed., Psychology of Religion; Benner, David G., ed., Christian Counseling and Psychotherapy, reviewed by Peter L. Van Katwyk - 89 / Christ's Rule-A Light for Every Corner: Papers of the RES Conferences, Harare, Zimbabwe, 1988, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 91 / Fiddes, Paul S., The Creative Suffering of God, reviewed by Theodore Minnema - 93 / Frostin, Per, Liberation Theology in Tanzania and South Africa, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 95 / Greidanus, Sidney, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text, reviewed by H. David Schuringa - 98 / Grudem, Wayne A., 1 Peter (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries), reviewed by Jeffrey A. D. Weima - 102 / Larkin, William J., Jr., Culture and Biblical Hermeneutics: Interpreting and Applying the Authoritative Word in a Relativistic Age, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus - 105 / Neuhaus, Richard J., ed., The Believable Futures of American Protestantism, reviewed by James D. Bratt - 107 / Latourelle, Rene, The Miracles of Jesus and the Theology of Miracles, reviewed by Sidney Greidanus - 109 / Noll, Mark A., One Nation Under God: Christian Faith and Political Action in America, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 111 / Shorter, Aylward, Toward a Theology of Inculturation, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 113 / Sullivan, Francis A., The Church We Believe In: One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 116 / Torrance, Thomas F., The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church, reviewed by John D. Morrison - 119 / Vitz, Paul C., Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious, reviewed by Eric L. Johnson - 122 / Barton, F. Whitfield, Calvin and the Duchess, reviewed by Joel E. Kok - 126 / Crockett, William R., Eucharist: Symbol of Transformation, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 129 / Messer, Donald E., Contemporary Images of Christian Ministry, reviewed by Louis M. Tamminga - 131 / Moreland, J. P., Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation, reviewed by Del Ratzsch - 132 / Olson, Jeannine E., Calvin and Social Welfare: Deacons and the Bourse Française, reviewed by Raymond A. Muntzer, Jr. - 135 / Panikkar, Raimundo, The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 137 / Sanneh, Lamin, Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 139 / Wells, Ronald A., History Through the Eyes of Faith, reviewed by Jacob P. Ellens - 142
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 24 No 2 - November 1989)

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Articles: The Law and Angels: Antiquities 15.136 and Galatians 3:19 by Andrew J. Bandstra - 223 / Teilhard, Marx, and the Worldview of Prominent Liberation Theologians by John W. Cooper - 241 / Arminius and the Scholastic Tradition by Richard A. Muller - 263 / Calvin Bibliography 1989 by Peter De Klerk - 278 / Scholia: Some Critical Issues in Biblical Interpretation by Klaas Runia - 300 / Book Reviews - Harrison, Everett F., Interpreting Acts: The Expanding Church; Krodel, Gerhard A., Acts, reviewed by Willis P. De Boer - 316 / Barbe, Dominique, Grace and Power: Base Communities and Nonviolence in Brazil, reviewed by Sidney H. Rooy - 322 / Duchrow, Ulrich, Global Economy: A Confessional Issue for the Churches?, reviewed by John P. Tiernstra - 326 / Elliott, Charles, Comfortable Compassion?, reviewed by John P. Tiernstra - 327 / Goldingay, John, Theological Diversity and the Authority of the Old Testament, reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers - 328 / Dallimore, Arnold A., A Heart Set Free: The Life of Charles Wesley, reviewed by Helen Westra - 331 / Du Boulay, Shirley, Tutu: Voice of the Voiceless, reviewed by Richard L. van Houten - 332 / Dulles, Avery, The Reshaping of Catholicism, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 334 / Dumbrell, William J., The Faith of Israel: Its Expression in the Books of the Old Testament, reviewed by Gary N. Knoppers - 337 / Jantzen, Grace M., Julian of Norwich: Mystic and Theologian, reviewed by Robert S. Sweetman - 340 / Lewy, Guenter, Peace and Revolution, reviewed by Dewey J. Hoitenga, Jr. - 343 / Liechty, Daniel, Andreas Fischer and the Sabbatarian Anabaptists, reviewed by Douglas H. Shantz - 348 / Motlhabi, Mokgethi, Challenge to Apartheid: Toward a Moral National Resistance; Villa-Vicencio, Charles, ed., Theology and Violence: The South African Debate, reviewed by Hendrik Hart - 352 / Parker, Kenneth L., The English Sabbath: A Study of Doctrine and Discipline from the Reformation to the Civil War, reviewed by Alan P. F. Sell - 354 / Scroggs, Robin, Christology in Paul and John, reviewed by Willis P. De Boer - 357 / Springer, Kevin, ed., Power Encounters among Christians in the Western World, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 360 / Spykman, Gordon, Lance Grahn, Guillermo Cook, Sidney Rooy, Michael Dodson, and John Stam, Let My People Live: Faith and Struggle in Central America, reviewed by James W. Skillen - 362 / Strehle, Stephen, Calvinism, Federalism, and Scholasticism: A Study of the Reformed Doctrine of Covenant, reviewed by Adrio Konig - 366 / The Theology of the Church and the Jewish People (Church documents on Jewish-Christian relations, with commentary by Allen Brockway, Paul Van Buren, Rolf Rendtorff, Simon Schoon.), reviewed by Mark Stover - 371 / Van Houten, Richard, ed., Christ's Rule: A Light for Every Corner, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 373 / Van Stam, F. P., The Controversy over the Theology of Saumur, 1635-1650: Disrupting Debates among the Huguenots in Complicated Circumstances, reviewed by Brian G. Armstrong - 376 / Wallace, Ronald S., Calvin, Geneva and the Reformation: A Study of Calvin as a Social Reformer, Churchman, Pastor and Theologian, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 378 / Webber, Robert E. and Rodney Clapp, People of the Truth: The Power of the Worshipping Community in the Modern World, reviewed by David J. Diephouse - 382 / Boone, Kathleen C., The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism, reviewed by Derke P. Bergsma - 383 / Cox, James W., ed., Best Sermons 2, reviewed by Wayne Brouwer - 385 / Wilson, Marvin R., Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 388 / Book Notices - 391 / Thesis Abstracts - 397
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 24 No 1 - April 1989)

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Hermeneutical Issues Then and Now: The Janssen Case Revisited by David E. Holwerda - 7 / Common Grace by Herman Bavinck, translated by Raymond C. Van Leeuwen - 35 / The Dimension of Ultimacy and Theology of Culture: A Critical Discussion of Langdon Gilkey by Brian J. Walsh - 66 / Dutch Calvinist Philosophical Influences in North America by Richard J. Mouw - 93 / Scholia: The Water of Baptism and the Wine of Communion by James LaGrand - 121 / Jude and the Rhetorician: A Dialogue on the Rhetorical Nature of the Epistle of Jude by Thomas R. Wolthuis - 126 / Book Reviews: McGovern, Arthur F., Marxism: An American Christian Perspective, reviewed by Sidney H. Rooy - 135 / Dumbrell, William J., The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21-22 and the Old Testament, reviewed by Andrew J. Bandstra - 137 / Keegan, Terence J., Interpreting the Bible: A Popular Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics, reviewed by William D. Dennison - 139 / Dennison, Charles G., and Richard C. Gamble, Pressing Toward the Mark: Essays Commemorating Fifty Years of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 140 / Stowers, Stanley R., Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity, reviewed by Andrew J. Bandstra - 143 / Bloesch, Donald G., Freedom for Obedience: Evangelical Ethics for Contemporary Times, reviewed by Douglas J. Schuurman - 144 / Bruner, Frederick Dale, The Christbook: A Historical/Theological Commentary—Matthew 1-12, reviewed by David E. Holwerda - 151 / Burghardt, Walter J., Preaching: The Art and the Craft, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 155 / Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn, Revival; Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn, Saved in Eternity: The Assurance of Our Salvation, reviewed by Robert D. Recker - 156 / Marsden, George M., Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 157 / Marshall, Michael, The Restless Heart: The Life and Influence of St. Augustine, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 159 / May, Gerald G., Will and Spirit: A Contemplative Psychology, reviewed by Mary E. Vander Goot - 162 / Scherer, James A., Gospel, Church, and Kingdom: Comparative Studies in World Mission Theology, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 164 / Sookhdeo, Patrick, ed., New Frontiers in Mission, reviewed by Craig Van Gelder - 166 / Swidler, Leonard, ed., Toward a Universal Theology of Religion, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 167 / Whittemore, Robert C., The Transformation of the New England Theology, reviewed by Peter Y. De Jong - 171 / Cox, James W., ed., The Minister's Manual for 1989, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 175 / Everett, William Johnson, God's Federal Republic: Reconstructing Our Governing Symbol, reviewed by Joel E. Kok - 176 / Kavanagh, Aidan, Confirmation: Its Origins and Reforms, reviewed by Carl E. Zylstra - 181 / Meilaender, Gilbert, The Limits of Love: Some Theological Explorations, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 183 / Pieris, Aloysius, Love Meets Wisdom: A Christian Experience of Buddhism, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 185 / Redekop, Calvin Wall, ed., Mennonite Identity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, reviewed by Leonard Verduin - 188 / Reierson, Gary B., The Arts in Preaching: The Intersection of Theology, Worship, and Preaching with the Arts, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 191 / Smedes, Lewis B., Caring and Commitment: Learning to Live the Love We Promise, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 192 / Sobrino, Jon, Spirituality of Liberation: Toward Political Holiness, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 194 / Visser ’t Hooft, W. A., Memoirs, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 197
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 23 No 2 - November 1988)

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Articles: Reassessing the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr by Ronald J. Feenstra - 142 / The Individual and Society in the Thought of Calvin by J. Alton Templin - 161 / Calvin as Theologian and Exegete—Is There Anything New? by Richard C. Gamble - 178 / Calvin Bibliography 1988 by Peter De Klerk - 195 / Scholia: The Great Reversal: Ethics and the New Testament—A Critical Assessment by Douglas J. Schuurman - 222 / A Response to Douglas Schuurman by Allen Verhey - 231 / Book Reviews: Vorster, W. S., ed., Church and Industry, reviewed by John H. Boer - 238 / Moltmann, Jürgen, On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics, reviewed by Douglas J. Schuurman - 240 / Vaux, Kenneth L., Health and Medicine in the Reformed Tradition: Promise, Providence and Care, reviewed by John H. Boer - 241 / Merkle, John C., The Genesis of Faith: The Depth Theology of Abraham Joshua Heschel, reviewed by Dale Sanders - 244 / Arnal, Oscar L., Priests in Working-Class Blue: The History of the Worker-Priests, 1941–1954, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 247 / Meyer, Carl S., ed., Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, reviewed by Frank C. Roberts - 249 / Morris, Kenneth E., Bonhoeffer's Ethic of Discipleship: A Study in Social Psychology, Political Thought, and Religion, reviewed by Douglas J. Schuurman - 251 / O’Donovan, Oliver, Resurrection and the Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics, reviewed by Douglas J. Schuurman - 254 / Sittler, Joseph, Gravity and Grace: Reflections and Provocations, reviewed by Douglas J. Schuurman - 258 / Alter, Robert and Frank Kermode, eds., The Literary Guide to the Bible, reviewed by Thomas R. Wolthuis - 259 / Furcha, E. J., ed., In Honour of John Calvin, 1509–1564, reviewed by John H. Bratt - 261 / Ganoczy, Alexandre, The Young Calvin, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 264 / Green, Michael, Baptism: Its Purpose, Practice and Power, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 265 / May, William W., ed., Vatican Authority and American Catholic Dissent: The Curran Case and Its Consequences, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 267 / McGrath, Alister, ARCIC II and Justification: An Evangelical Anglican Assessment of "Salvation and the Church", reviewed by Norman Shepherd - 271 / Meyer, Marvin W., ed., The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook, reviewed by Andrew J. Bandstra - 272 / Moreland, J. P., Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 273 / Nichols, J. Randall, The Restoring Word: Preaching as Pastoral Communication, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 277 / Osborne, Kenan B., The Christian Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 279 / Poythress, Vern S., Understanding Dispensationalists, reviewed by Anthony A. Hoekema - 283 / Viladesau, Richard, Answering for Faith: Christ and the Human Search for Salvation, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 285 / Cullman, Oscar, Unity Through Diversity, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 289 / Punt, Neal, What's Good about the Good News? The Plan of Salvation in a New Light, reviewed by Cornelis P. Venema - 290 / Book Notices - 295 / Thesis Abstracts - 301
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 23 No 1 - April 1988)

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Articles: Calvin's Exegesis of Romans 12:8—Social, Accidental, or Theological? by Elsie Anne McKee - 6 / The Identity of Resurrected Persons: Fatal Flaw of Monistic Anthropology by John W. Cooper - 19 / The Threeness/Oneness Problem of the Trinity by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. - 37 / Scholia: Notes and Comments for the Minister. The CRC on the "Congregational Way"? by Henry De Moor - 54 / Book Reviews: Paul J. Achtemeir, ed. Harper's Bible Dictionary, reviewed by John H. Stek - 61 / Charles Bell, Calvin and Scottish Theology: The Doctrine of Assurance, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 66 / Keneth Hagen, Daniel J. Harrington, Grant R. Osborne, and Joseph A. Burgess, The Bible in the Churches: How Different Christians Interpret the Scriptures, reviewed by Paul L. Bremer - 67 / Herbert J. Brinks, Write Back Soon: Letters from Immigrants in America, reviewed by Robert B. Swierenga - 68 / John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1536 Edition, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 73 / Michael E. Cavanagh, The Effective Minister: Psychological and Social Considerations, reviewed by Carl E. Zylstra - 75 / Raymond F. Collins, Christian Morality: Biblical Foundations, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 76 / Ralph R. Covell, Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ: A History of the Gospel in Chinese, reviewed by Richard R. DeRidder - 77 / James O. Farmer, Jr., The Metaphysical Confederacy: James Henley Thornwell and the Synthesis of Southern Values, reviewed by Bradley J. Longfield - 79 / Eberhard Jüngel, Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 80 / Karen Lebacqz, Six Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Theological Philosophical Ethics, reviewed by David C. Snyder - 82 / Paul Marshall, Thine Is the Kingdom: A Biblical Perspective on the Nature of Government and Politics Today, reviewed by Stephen V. Monsma - 83 / Henry H. Mitchell and Nicholas Cooper Lewter, Soul Theology: The Heart of American Black Culture, reviewed by Victor Anderson - 85 / Michael Novak, Will It Liberate? Questions about Liberation Theology, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 88 / Thomas J. Talley, The Origins of the Liturgical Year, reviewed by Alvin L. Hoksbergen - 91 / Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar, eds., New Religious Movements and the Churches, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 93 / Peter De Klerk, ed., Calvin and Christian Ethics, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 97 / William F. Fore, Television and Religion: The Shaping of Faith, Values, and Culture, reviewed by Quentin J. Schultze - 100 / Robert C. Lester, Buddhism: The Path to Nirvana, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 106 / Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 107 / Gerritt J. Ten Zytoff, Sources of Secession: The Netherlands Hervormde Kerk on the Eve of the Dutch Immigration to the Midwest, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 108 / David Tracy, Plurality and Ambiguity: Hermeneutics, Religion, Hope, reviewed by Donald K. McKim - 110 / Book Notices - 117
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 22 No 2 - November 1987)

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Abraham Kuyper: Cultural Critic by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. - 210 / Covenant or Covenants in the Theology of Olevianus? by Lyle D. Bienna - 228 / Is "Minjung Theology" a Christian Theology? by Seyoon Kim - 251 / Calvin Bibliography 1987 by Peter De Klerk - 275 / Scholia: Testing the Spirit of the Age of Aquarius: The New Age Movement by John W. Cooper - 295 / Book Reviews - James A. De Jong, Into His Presence, reviewed by Clifford Bajema - 306 / Tad Dunne, S.J., Lonergan and Spirituality: Towards a Spiritual Integration, reviewed by Arvin Vos - 308 / F. Dean Lueking, Preaching: The Art of Connecting God and People, reviewed by Wilbert Van Dyk - 310 / Franklin E. Payne, Jr., Biblical/Medical Ethics: The Christian and the Practice of Medicine, reviewed by Douglas S. Diekema - 312 / Robert E. Webber, Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 315 / Samuele Bacchiocchi, The Advent Hope for Human Hopelessness, reviewed by Anthony A. Hoekema - 317 / Charles Davis, What Is Living, What Is Dead in Christianity Today? Breaking the Liberal-Conservative Deadlock, reviewed by James H. Olthuis - 321 / E. A. De Boer, Loflied en Hekeldicht: De Geschiedenis van Calvijn's Enige Gedicht, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 324 / Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865, reviewed by Bruce M. Anderson - 326 / Carl F. H. Henry, Confessions of a Theologian: An Autobiography, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 329 / Anthony A. Hoekema, Created in God's Image, reviewed by Cornelius P. Venema - 331 / H. M. Kuitert, Everything Is Politics, but Politics Is Not Everything, reviewed by Richard J. Mouw - 335 / Samuel T. Logan, Jr., ed., The Preacher and Preaching: Reviving the Art in the Twentieth Century, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 339 / Mary Amba Oduyoye, Hearing and Knowing, reviewed by Eugene Rubingh - 341 / Ian Pitt-Watson, Primer for Preachers, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 343 / Del Ratzsch, Philosophy of Science: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 344 / Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 347 / Lewis B. Smedes, The Making and Keeping of Commitments: The Stab Lectures of Calvin College and Seminary, 1986-87, reviewed by Kenneth Konyndyk - 350 / W. Van't Spijker et al., De Nadere Reformatie, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 353 / James Melvin Washington, Frustrated Fellowship: The Black Baptist Quest for Social Power, reviewed by Victor Anderson - 355 / John Wimber, Power Evangelism, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 357 / Book Notices - 362 / Thesis Abstracts - 378
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 22 No 1 - April 1987)

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The Source of a Religious Error in Colossae by Randal A. Argall - 6 / Jude and Jewish Traditions by Charles Evans - 25 / Articles: Theology and Ethics in Jürgen Moltmann by Douglas J. Schuurman - 42 / Jonathan Edwards and the Scope of Gospel Ministry by Helen Westra - 68 / Scholia: The Trinity as a Unifying Theme in Reformed Thought: A Response to Dr. George Vandervelde by John Bolt - 91 / Siblings on Alien Planets? Refocussing a Discussion by George Vandervelde - 104 / Jesus on Divorce: An Assessment of a New Proposal by David E. Holwerda - 114 / Book Reviews: Helm, Paul, The Divine Revelation, reviewed by John Bolt - 121 / Eidsmoe, John, God and Caesar: Christian Faith and Political Action, reviewed by Richard J. Mouw - 123 / Padilla, C. René, Mission Between the Times, reviewed by Eugene Rubingh - 126 / Allen, Diogenes, Philosophy for Understanding Theology, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 128 / Costa, René, Marxist Analysis and Christian Faith, reviewed by John W. Cooper - 132 / Cox, James W., Preaching: A Comprehensive Approach to the Design and Delivery of Sermons, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 135 / Donders, Joseph G., Non-Bourgeois Theology: An African Experience of Jesus, reviewed by Eugene Rubingh - 137 / Erickson, Millard J., Christian Theology, Vol. 3, reviewed by Ralph W. Vunderink - 139 / Packer, J. I. and Thomas Howard, Christianity: The True Humanism, reviewed by Anthony A. Hoekema - 144 / Parshall, Phil, Beyond the Mosque: Christians within Muslim Community, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 145 / Schreiter, Robert J., Constructing Local Theologies, reviewed by Eugene Rubingh - 147 / Stein, Robert H., Difficult Sayings in the Gospels: Jesus' Use of Overstatement and Hyperbole, reviewed by Willis P. DeBoer - 150 / Tonna, Benjamin, Gospel for the Cities, reviewed by Eugene Rubingh - 151 / Vree, Dale, From Berkeley to East Berlin and Back, reviewed by Gordon J. Spykman - 154 / Wegman, Herman A. J., Christian Worship in East and West: A Study Guide to Liturgical History, reviewed by Harry Boonstra - 156 / Wicks, Robert J., Richard D. Parsons and Donald E. Capps, eds., Clinical Handbook of Pastoral Counseling, reviewed by David W. Van Gelder - 157 / Basinger, David and Randall Basinger, eds., Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom, reviewed by David Feddes - 159 / Boff, Leonardo, Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 162 / Cameron, Nigel M. de S. and Sinclair B. Ferguson, eds., Pulpit & People: Essays in Honor of William Still on his 75th Birthday, reviewed by Wilbert M. Van Dyk - 163 / Hauerwas, Stanley, Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 165 / Hummel, Charles E., The Galileo Connection, reviewed by Davis A. Young - 168 / Neuhaus, Richard John, Dispensations: The Future of South Africa as South Africans See It, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 170 / Peshkin, Alan, God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian, reviewed by Edwin Walhout - 172 / Book Notices - 178
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 21 No 2 - November 1986)

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A Commemorative Note by the Editor - 150 / Articles: Calvin Interprets What "Moses Reports": Observations on Calvin's Commentary on Exodus 1–19 by Marten H. Woudstra - 151 / "Through a Mirror Dimly": Calvin's Sermons on Job by Susan E. Schreiner - 175 / Calvin Bibliography 1986 by Peter De Klerk - 194 / Scholia: John Calvin's Views on Discipline: A Comparison of the Institution of 1536 and the Institutes of 1559 by Richard R. De Ridder - 223 / Abraham Kuyper's Edition of the Institutes by James A. De Jong - 231 / Book Reviews - Calviniana: McKim, Donald K., Readings in Calvin's Theology, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 233 / Keesecker, William F., A Calvin Reader: Reflections on Living, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 235 / Van Der Walt, Jansie, Calvin and His Times, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 236 / Vos, Arvin, Aquinas, Calvin, and Contemporary Protestant Thought: A Critique of Protestant Views on the Thought of Thomas Aquinas, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 237 / Wilterdink, Garret, Tyrant or Father? A Study of Calvin's Doctrine of God, reviewed by Lyle D. Bierma - 239 / Parker, T. H. L., Calvin's Old Testament Commentaries, reviewed by Richard C. Gamble - 241 / Book Reviews: Hunter, James D., American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity, reviewed by David Stravers - 247 / Jüngel, Eberhard, God as the Mystery of the World: On the Foundation of the Theology of the Crucified One in the Dispute Between Theism and Atheism, reviewed by John Bolt - 250 / Sanneh, Lamin, West African Christianity: The Religious Impact, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 255 / Eboussi Boulaga, F., Christianity Without Fetishes: An African Critique and Recapture of Christianity, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 257 / Congar, Yves, Diversity and Community, reviewed by John H. Kromminga - 258 / Dickson, Kwesi A., Theology in Africa, reviewed by Robert R. Recker - 260 / Fowler, James W., Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian, reviewed by Robert C. De Vries - 262 / Lapide, Pinchas E., Hebrew in the Church: The Foundations of Jewish-Christian Dialogue, reviewed by Phillip Sigal - 265 / Lyall, Francis, Slaves, Citizens, Sons: Legal Metaphors in the Epistles, reviewed by Willis P. De Boer - 270 / Simon, William E., et al., Toward the Future: Catholic Social Thought and the U. S. Economy, reviewed by John P. Tiemstra - 272 / Esbjornson, Robert, ed., The Manipulation of Life, reviewed by Allen Verhey - 273 / Godfrey, W. Robert and Jessie L. Boyd III, eds., Through Christ's Word: A Festschrift for Dr. Philip E. Hughes, reviewed by Dale Sanders - 277 / Gregson, Vernon, Lonergan, Spirituality, and the Meeting of Religions, reviewed by Arvin Vos - 279 / Grislis, Egil, ed., The Theology of Martin Luther: Five Contemporary Canadian Interpretations, reviewed by Lyle D. Bierma - 281 / Hoff, Marvin D., Structures for Mission, reviewed by Peter Borgdorff - 284 / Lowery, Mark D., Ecumenism: Striving for Unity amid Diversity, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 286 / Lundin, Roger, Anthony C. Thiselton, and Clarence Walhout, The Responsibility of Hermeneutics, reviewed by Lambert Zuidervaart - 290 / McIntire, C. T., ed., The Legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd, reviewed by John Bolt - 296 / Pelikan, Jaroslav, Jesus through the Centuries, reviewed by Frank C. Roberts - 299 / Van Selms, A., Job: A Practical Commentary, reviewed by Al Wolters - 303 / Rienstra, M. Howard, ed., Jesuit Letters from China, 1583–1584, reviewed by James A. De Jong - 309 / Book Notices - 311 / Thesis Abstracts - 324
Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 21 No 1 - April 1986)

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Calvin, Copernicus, and Castellio by Christopher B. Kaiser - 5 / Calvin's Pentateuchal Criticism: Equity, Hardness of Heart, and Divine Accommodation by David F. Wright - 33 / Theory and Practice in Dutch Calvinism on the Racial Issue in the Nineteenth Century by Dirk Th. Kuiper - 51 / Evolutionary Dialectics and Segundo's Liberation of Theology by James H. Olthuis - 79 / A Trinitarian Framework and Reformed Distinctiveness: A Critical Assessment of Christian and Reformed Today by George Vandervelde - 95 / Book Reviews - Erickson, Millard J., Christian Theology, vol. 2, reviewed by Dale Sanders - 111 / Benner, David G., ed., Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology, reviewed by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen - 113 / Donohue, Agnes McNeill, Hawthorne: Calvin's Ironic Stepchild, reviewed by Kenneth W. Kuiper - 115 / Joy, Donald M., Bonding: Relationships in the Image of God, reviewed by Eugene Rubingh - 117 / Link, Hans-Georg, ed., Apostolic Faith Today, reviewed by Paul G. Schrotenboer - 119 / MacMaster, Richard K., Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America, 1683–1790, reviewed by Frank C. Roberts - 120 / Ogilvie, Lloyd John, The Bush Is Still Burning, reviewed by William R. Lenters - 123 / Russell, Colin A., Cross Currents: Interactions Between Science and Faith, reviewed by John H. Stek - 124 / Snyder, Howard A., A Kingdom Manifesto: Calling the Church to Live Under God's Reign, reviewed by Robert Recker - 126 / Thieman, Ronald F., Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise, reviewed by Ronald J. Feenstra - 127 / Westing, Harold J., Multiple Staff Handbook, reviewed by Richard R. De Ridder - 130 / Book Notices - 132