Southwestern Journal of Theology

Volume 65, No. 1 - Fall 2022
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

The articles in the current issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology are focused on James Leo Garrett Jr. and the Southwestern theological tradition. These articles from Dr. Garrett’s students and admirers engage his theological contributions, including a look at his influence on Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary as well as Southwestern’s influence on him.

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• Editorial - David S. Dockery
• James Leo Garrett Jr. and the Southwestern Theological Tradition - David S. Dockery
• Currents, Methods, and Tendencies in The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr. 1950–2015 - Wyman Lewis Richardson
• The Social Theology and Political Theology of James Leo Garrett Jr. - Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• An Assessment of a Magnum Opus: James Leo Garrett Jr.’s “Baptist Theology” as a Gift to 21st Century Baptists - Jason G. Duesing
• Lessons James Leo Garrett Taught Me About Life, Scholarship, and Theology - Robert B. Stewart
• “Munus Triplex of the Trinity”: The Father as the Proper Potentate, the Spirit as the Permanent Prophet, and the Son as the Perpetual Priest: Trinity and Priesthood in the Thought of James Leo Garrett Jr. - Peter L. H. Tie
• Book Reviews

• Volume 64, No. 2 – Spring 2022
  Managing Editor: David S. Dockery

  The Spring 2022 issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is focused on the theme of “Christ and Culture Revisited.” Richard Niebuhr wrote a classic work titled Christ and Culture in 1951. In the book, Niebuhr provided a thorough overview and analysis of five different approaches that Christians have taken throughout church history in their response to and engagement with culture through the years. Christians currently find themselves in a key cultural moment, a time described by philosophers and sociologists as “a secular age.”
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  • Editorial – David S. Dockery
  • Christ and Culture Revisited Again In the 2020s – Theodore J. Cabal
  • Evangelicals and Politics: A Complicated Relationship – Timothy D. Padgett
  • A Theology of Culture Intelligence – Darrell L. Block
  • The Separation of Church and State: A Southern Baptist Perspective – Nathan A. Finn
  • The Gospel, Religious Liberty, and Social Duty: The Holistic Theology of George Washington Truett – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
  • The Sacredness of Life in a Culture of Death – Ashley L. Allen
  • Dual Citizens of Concentric Kingdoms: Christian Citizenship According to the New Testament – James R. Wicker
  • Book Reviews
  • Book Notes

Volume 64, No. 1 – Fall 2021
Managing Editor: David S. Dockery

The Fall 2021 issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to “The Use of the Old Testament in the New.”

This important theme has implications for how we understand both testaments. Should we consider the Old Testament to be Christian Scripture, or should we reserve this designation for the New Testament? What do the ways that the New Testament writers use the Old Testament tell us about translation and interpretation practices? Do answers to these questions help us develop a doctrine of Scripture and understanding for biblical interpretation in the twenty-first century? The contributors to this issue wrestle with these and other questions, which are not new, but which need to be revisited by each generation.
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• Editorial – David S. Dockery
• New Approaches to the Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament – Andrew D. Streett
• The Use of the Old Testament in the Synoptic Gospels – Craig A. Evans
• The Use of the Old Testament in the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles – Andreas J. Köstenberger
• The Old Testament in Acts: A Macro Perspective – Patrick Schreiner
• Reading the Torah as the Law of Faith – Craig Keener
• The Use of the Old Testament in the Epistle to the Hebrews – Dana M. Harris
• Righteousness and the Use of the Old Testament in James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude – Mark E. Taylor
• The Use of the Old Testament in the Apocalypse – Gregory K. Beale
• Book Reviews
• Book Notes

Volume 63, No. 2 – Spring 2021
Managing Editor: David S. Dockery

The articles found in this issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology are authored around the theme of “The Doctrine of Humankind.”

“What does it mean to be human?” This question was asked nearly two decades ago at a major bioethics conference by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumnus C. Ben Mitchell. The way he framed the conversation was profound. Realizing the importance of this question and the various implications for our lives and ministries, we have invited a group of thoughtful theologians and ethicists to help us think carefully and wisely about these challenging issues.
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• Editorial – David S. Dockery
• Who Does God Say I Am?: Theological Anthropology for Doctrinal Disciple-Making – Rhyne R. Putnam
• A Whole Bible Approach to Interpreting Creation in God’s Image – John S. Hammett
• God Created Them, Male and Female – Katie J. McCoy
• A Theology of Human Embodiment – Gregg R. Allison
• The Body and Human Sexuality – W. Madison Grace II
• A Gospel-Centered Approach to the Issue of Racism: Race, Ethnicity, and the Gospel’s Influence towards Racial Reconciliation – Carl Bradford
• Race and Racism in the Southern Baptist Convention: The Lost Legacies of George W. Truett and W. A. Criswell – O.S. Hawkins
• Fake and Future “Humans”: Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and the Question of the Person – Jacob Shatzer
• Book Reviews
• Book Notes
• 2020 Book Awards

Volume 63, No. 1 – Fall 2020
Managing Editor: David S. Dockery

The articles found in this issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology are built around the theme of “Theology Applied.”

“Theology Applied” calls for us to be hearers of God’s Word, students of God’s Word, followers of God’s Word, as well as doers and practitioners of God’s Word. The contributors to this issue have provided a harmonious chorus to help us begin to connect the dots between thinking about God and our worship of and service to God. In doing so, we recognize that theology is not an individualistic cerebral experience. We contend that theology matters to the church. Moreover, theology serves as the foundation for the life of the church and for the Christian witness to and for the world.
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• Editorial – David S. Dockery
• A Theology for the Church: George W. Truett and the Southwestern Tradition – Malcolm B. Yarnelll III
• Spanning the Pedagogical Divide: A Theological Model Connecting Content and Competency – Amy L. Crider and Joseph R. Crider
• Toward a Holistic Biblical Theology of Christian Worship – D. Jeffrey Mooney
• Preaching: The Foundation of the Church’s Mission – David L. Allen
• The Gospel, Evangelism, and Missions: Exegetical Observations and Theological Implications of Apostolic Proclamation and Action (Acts 2:22-41) – Matt Queen
• The Good, the True, and the Beautiful: Toward a Theology of Whole Life Discipleship – Scott B. Key
• Theology, Life, and Work: Revisiting the Twentieth-Century Conversation on the Protestant Work Ethic – Greg Cochran
• Toward a Baptist Natural Law Conception of the Common Good – Casey B. Hough and Andrew T. Walker
• Book Reviews
• Book Notes

Volume 62, No. 2 – Spring 2020
Managing Editor: David S. Dockery

This volume has been shaped around the theme of “Christian Higher Education in the Baptist Tradition.” Contributors explore this theme from a variety of perspectives. Highlighted are essays engaging academic or intellectual discipleship, understanding the roles of Scripture and the Christian worldview in Christian education, implications of secularism in Christian higher education, and empathy in the general education curriculum.
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• Editorial – David S. Dockery
• Baptist Higher Education: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Hopeful Trajectories – David S. Dockery
• Academic Discipleship and the Baptist University – Nathan A. Finn
• The Bible and the University: Sola Scriptura and Interdisciplinary Engagement – Keith Whitfield and Rhyne Putman
• Intellectual Empathy: Operationalizing the Great Commandment through the University General Education Program – Gene C. Fant
• Baptists and Secularism: Forthcoming Challenges for Christian Higher Education – Hunter Baker
• Faithfully Transitioning to Online Education – Kristen A. Ferguson
• What Christian Universities Owe Their Students – C. Ben Mitchell
• Book Reviews
• Book Notes

Volume 62, No. 1 – Fall 2019
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This volume presents a variety of articles in Biblical Studies and Theology. Highlighted are essays engaging Political Theology, Calvin Studies, New Testament Studies, as well as Culture and Theology. This volume particularly highlights the work of scholars from Southwestern Seminary.
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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• The Theology of Elizabeth I: Politique or Believer? – Malcolm B. Yarnell
• What Remains of Our Lament? Exploring the Relationship Between death, Memory, and Grief in the Christian Life and in Recent Cultural Texts – Ched Spellman
• Adoption in Calvin’s Soteriology: Basis for Redemption or Benefit of Union? – Michael Wilkinson
• An Assarion for Your Thoughts: The Challenges of Translating NT Numismatic Terms – James Robert Wicker
• Book Reviews

Volume 61, No. 2 – Spring 2019
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This volume presents articles from the field of World Christian Studies. Highlighted within this issue are diverse essays engaging missions in a global context. This volume particularly highlights the work on World Christianity that is ongoing at Southwestern with articles written by faculty and graduates of the World Christian Studies Program.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• Continuities in Contrast: World Christianity and the West – Keith E. Eitel
• Understanding Diffusion: The Role of a Western Missionary in Africa – Kenneth H. Vines
• The Retransmission of Evangelical Christianity in Nigeria: The Legacy and Lessons from Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s Life and Ministry (1810–1891) – Olayemi O.T. Fatusi
• An Assessment of the Origin of Nigerian Pentecostalism and Garrick Sokari Braide’s Healing Ministry of the Niger Delta (1882-1918) – Jacob K. Oladipupo
• Missions and Insurgency in Nigeria: A Historical Survey of Nigerian Baptist Convention Work, 1980 to 2020 and the Future of World Christianity – Moses Audi
• Globalization, Glocalization, and the Impact of Circular Migration on the Expansion of Christianity in Islamic Sub-Saharan Africa – M. Augustus Hamilton
• Book Reviews

Volume 61, No. 1 – Fall 2018
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

For the greater part of the twentieth century there was not much concern with the doctrine of the church. Fortunately, there has been a recent turn back in these traditions to ecclesiology. Highlighted within this issue are articles that are concerned with this need to engage ecclesiology.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• The Ongoing “Use” of Baptism: A Hole in the Baptist (Systematic) Baptistery – Jonathan D. Watson
• The Lord’s Supper: Reclaiming the Symbolic Meal from a Symbol of a Meal – Rustin Umstattd
• The Cognitive Abilities of Children and Southern Baptist Baptismal Restrictions – Robert Matz
• “Matthean Theological Priority?”:Making Sense of Matthew’s Proto-Ecclesiology in Acts 1-14 – A. Boyd Luter and Nicholas A. Dodson
• “Accounted Worthy to Bear in My Body the Marks of the Lord Jesus”: James Hinton, the Persecution of English Dissent, & the Woodstock Riot – Michael A.G. Haykin
• Book Reviews
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 60, No. 2 – Spring 2018
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This volume is in response to the growing interest in the philosophy and apologetics programs and the exceptional work of our faculty. Highlighted within this issue are articles that are diverse in subject matter but are unified in addressing a variety of important questions pertaining to the field of apologetics as well as the nature of Christian belief.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• God, Atheism, and the Origins Debates – Paul M. Gould
• Beholding the Face of a Hidden God: Assessing the Argument from Divine Hiddenness for Atheism – Ross C. Inman
• The Forgotten Legacy – Timothy Joel McGrew
• Souls and Christian Eschatology: a Critique of Christian Physicalism – R. Keith Loftin
• The Role of Evidence for Christian Belief – Travis M. Dickinson
• Book Reviews
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 60, No. 1 – Fall 2017
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This issue, in honor of its 500th anniversary, reflects on the Protestant Reformation. It places the theology of the reformers within its larger context, with special attention given to the Spanish Reformation of the Sixteenth Century and aspects of Martin Luther’s thought.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• The Theology of the Reformers – Paige Patterson
• The Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth Century (Part 1) – Emilio Monjo Bellido
• The Reformation in Spain in the Sixteenth Century (Part 2) – Emilio Monjo Bellido
• Was Luther a Bible Critic? – Friedhelm Jung
• Missiologia Crucis: Martin’s Luther Missiology – J. Tristan Hurley
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern

Volume 59, No. 2 – Spring 2017
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This issue, entitled Faith, Work, and Economics, focuses on the concept of whole-life Christianity, and the broader question of what does the Bible say about faith, work, and economics. This issue is an indispensable resource to the 21st century pastor as an aid in understanding Christianity that is not just limited to Sundays.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II, Eric Mitchell, John Taylor
• Are Business People the Bad Guys? Person and Property in the Pentateuch – David W. Baker
• The Year of Jubilee and the Ancient Israelite Economy – John S. Bergsma
• Limited Government and Taxation in the Old Testament – Eric Mitchell
• Land Grabs, Unjust Exchange, and Bribes: Economic Opportunism and the Rights of the Poor in Ancient Israel – Edd S. Noell
• Labor of Love: The Theology of Work in First and Second Thessalonians – John Taylor
• The Business Secrets of Paul of Tarsus – Thomas W. Davis
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern

Volume 59, No. 1 – Fall 2016
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This issue, entitled Concerning Humanity, focuses on various anthropological issues ranging from science and the soul to the use of reproductive technologies and their relationship to adultery. This issue is an indispensable resource to the 21st century pastor as an aid in understanding important anthropological issues.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• What Can Science Tell Us About the Soul? – Chad Meeks
• Gay Sex and Grace, What Does Grace Have to Do with Homosexual Practices – Robert V. Rakestraw
• Is it Adultery? The Use of Third Party Gametes in Assisted Reproductive Technology – Evan Lenow
• You Talkin’ to Me? 1 Peter 2:4–10 and a Theology of Israel – Jim R. Sibley
• Review Essay: A Strange Sort of Orthodoxy: An Analysis of the T4T and CPM Approach to Missions – Adam Coker
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 58, No. 2 – Spring 2016
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

This issue addresses B. H. Carroll’s pastoral theology with the publication of his lecture notes entitled “The Twentieth-Century Pastor; or, Lectures on Pastoral Theology,” along with an introduction to B. H. Carroll and his work as provided by Dr. Michael Crisp. These articles are not only an historic look at the pastoral theology of Southwestern’s founder, but are also a wealth of wisdom for ministry today.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• B. H. Carroll – Remembering his Life, Expanding his Legacy – Michael Crisp
• Introduction – B. H. Carroll
• Part One: The Pastor in his Private Life – B. H. Carroll
• Part Two: The Pastor in Relation to his Church – B. H. Carroll
• Part Three: The Pastor and His Relation to the World – B. H. Carroll
• Part Four: Some Special Pastoral Problems – B. H. Carroll
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 58, No. 1 – Fall 2015
Managing Editor: W. Madison Grace II

The particular theme of this issue is preaching Jude. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary annually hosts an Expository Preaching Workshop that addresses the major concerns of text-driven preaching. In the Spring of 2015 that workshop focused in on the book of Jude. The articles in this issue are adaptations of those presentations. They are helpful to students of the Bible and especially to preachers. Those who are preparing to preach part, or all, of Jude will find these articles of great worth. From making decisions on how to approach the book to tackling some of its difficult statements, the articles address the major concerns a preacher faces when tackling Jude. Also, they present important facets of preaching that can be applied universally to most texts of the Bible. For those who are new to preaching or those that have been preaching for quite awhile these articles are beneficial for the craft of preaching.

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• Editorial – W. Madison Grace II
• Preaching Through Jude – Jerry Vines
• Contending for the Faith: Jude 3–4 – David L. Allen
• Jude 6 – Paige Patterson
• The Benefit of Baseline Exposition – Matthew McKellar
• Keeping Your People Glued to Jude: Using Illustrations that Stick – Vern Charette
• Difficult Passages in Jude – Steven W. Smith
• How to Survive and Thrive in the Apostasy – Jerry Vines
• Bibliography of Commentaries, Special Studies, and Monographs on Jude – David L. Allen
• Who is the True Revisionist? A Response to Steve W. Lemke – Thomas Ascol and Thomas J. Nettles
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 57, No. 2 – Spring 2015
Managing Editor: Terry L. Wilder

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to the topic of “Historical Theology.” The benefits of studying history are many. It can be of tremendous assistance to us in the present day. For example, history helps us to understand and gain perspective on our current situation and thinking. It can answer questions like: “How did we get to where we are now?” “Where did that idea or line of thought originate?” “From what tradition did that opinion stem?” In other words, history provides us with fresh insights from past knowledge as we evaluate and make sense of our present. History also helps us learn not to repeat the mistakes of the past and enables us to see how people long ago met challenges and dealt with the crises, problems, and obstacles that came their way. History is especially valuable when studying theology because it gives us a look at the specific contexts in which theologies were created, developed, and defined. This describes historical theology.

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• Editorial – Terry L. Wilder
• Early English Baptists’ View of the Lord’s Supper– W. Madison Grace II
• Christopher Blackwood: Exemplar of the Seventeenth-Century – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Andrew Fuller and the Doctrine of Revelation – Andrew J. Spencer
• History or Revisionist History? How Calvinistic Were the Overwhelming Majority of Baptists and Their Confessions in the South until the Twentieth Century? – Steve W. Lemke
• Easter Celebration in Seventh-Century Britain: Resolving Conflict within the Church – Rodney H. Orr and Shane Angland
• The Lifespans of the EB-MB Patriarchs: A Hermeneutical and Historical Conundrum – Eugene H. Merrill
• Does God Own a Death Star? The Destruction of the Cosmos in 2 Peter 3:1-13 – Matthew Y. Emerson
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 57, No. 1 – Fall 2014
Managing Editor: Terry L. Wilder

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to the topic of “Missions Methods and Principles” and may be one of the most important issues that the seminary has ever published. The matters discussed in this volume go to the very heart of Jesus’ Great Commission to “go and make disciples of all the nations” (Matt 28:19). We pray that these articles increase your missions awareness and help equip you with knowledge in your preparation for engagement in ministry at home and abroad.

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• Editorial – Terry L. Wilder
• Theological Education and Southern Baptist Missions Strategy in the Twenty-first Century – John David Massey
• A Course Correction in Missions: Rethinking the Two-Percent Threshold – Robin Dale Hadaway
• Two Approaches to Contextualization – Dean F. Sieberhagen
• Competing and Conflicting Mission – M. David Sills
• Contending for Southern Baptist Biblical Missiology: Does Doublespeak Live? – Keith E. Eitel
• The Role of Women as Missionaries – Dorothy Kelley Patterson
• Neophyte Pastors: Can Titus 1 Be Used to Justify Placing New Converts in the Office of Pastor? – Michael Scott Robertson
• Contrasting Missiological Positions in Regard to Matthew 28:20 – John Michael Morris
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 56, No. 2 – Spring 2014
Managing Editor: Terry L. Wilder

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to the topic of “Anabaptistica,” a term that means “things about or pertaining to Anabaptism and Anabaptists.” The Anabaptists were one major branch of the sixteenth-century Radical Reformers.
We pray that these articles increase your knowledge and help equip you in your preparation for engagement in ministry. We aim to serve the church and are more than happy to assist you. Further, if God has called you into his service please consider allowing us the privilege of preparing you at Southwestern for a lifetime of ministry. These are exciting times at the seminary! God bless you.

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• Editorial – Terry L. Wilder
• Balthasar Hubmaier’s Doctrine of Justification by Faith – Michael Whitlock
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: Martin Luther’s Critique of Anabaptism – Nathan A. Finn
• I Wait Upon My God: Exploring the Life and Letters of Michael Sattler – Ched Spellman
• Bruderliche Vereinigung: A Brief Look at Unity in the Schleitheim Confession – Michael D. Wilkinson
• Leonhard Schiemer’s Anabaptist Catechism (1527/28)– Jason J. Graffagnino
• Translator’s Preface to Massimo Firpo’s “Religious Radicalism: From Anabaptism to Anti-Trinitarianism” – Maël Disseau
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 56, No. 1 – Fall 2013
Managing Editor: Terry L. Wilder

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology (SWJT) marks our online debut and is the second of two volumes on the topic, Biblical Theology: Past, Present, and Future. Most of the articles in these volumes were initially presented on March 9-10, 2012, at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), which met in the Riley Center on the campus of the host institution, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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• Editorial – Terry L. Wilder
• The Present and Future of Biblical Theology – Andreas J. Köstenberger
• The Freedom of God and the Hope of Israel: Theological Interpretation of Romans 9 – John W. Taylor
• Phoebe, the Letter-Carrier of Romans, and the Impact of Her Role on Biblical Theology – Terry L. Wilder
• Jesus Christ, The Good to Great Shepherd – Steven W. Smith
• Observations on the Historical Reliability of the Old Testament – Helmut Pehlke
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 55, No. 2 – Spring 2013
Managing Editor: Terry L. Wilder

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology (SWJT) is the first of two volumes on the topic, Biblical Theology: Past, Present, and Future. The present volume is devoted to “Biblical Theology Past.”

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• Editorial – Terry L. Wilder
• Biblical Theology and From Where It Came – Gerald Bray
• Yahweh’s Self Revelation in Deed and Word: A Biblical Theology of 1-2 Samuel – Robert B. Chisolm, Jr.
• The Reef of Biblical Theology: A Method for Doing Biblical Theology That Makes Sense for Wisdom Literature – Douglas Kennard
• Review Essay (Part Two): John Calvin on the Death of Christ and the Reformation’s Forgotten Doctrine of Universal Vicarious Satisfaction: A Review and Critique of Tom Nettles’ Chapter in Whomever He Wills – David Pointer
• Book Reviews
• Abstracts of Recent Dissertations at Southwestern
• Index of Book Reviews

Volume 55, No. 1 – Fall 2012
Managing Editor: Terry L. Wilder

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to the topic of “Historical Theology.” The benefits of studying history are many. It can be of tremendous assistance to us in the present day. For example, history helps us to understand and gain perspective on our current situation and thinking. It can answer questions like: “How did we get to where we are now?” “Where did that idea or line of thought originate?” “From what tradition did that opinion stem?” In other words, history provides us with fresh insights from past knowledge as we evaluate and make sense of our present. History also helps us learn not to repeat the mistakes of the past and enables us to see how people long ago met challenges and dealt with the crises, problems, and obstacles that came their way. History is especially valuable when studying theology because it gives us a look at the specific contexts in which theologies were created, developed, and defined. This describes historical theology.

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• Editorial – Terry L. Wilder
• A Biblical Theology of Missions and Contextualization – Terry L. Wilder
• Global choices for Twenty-First Century Christians: Bringing Clarity to Missional Theology – Malcolm Yarnell III
• Proclaiming the Changeless Truth in These Changing Times – Norman Geisler
• Encountering Culture in Light of the Book of Daniel – Paige Patterson
• Scriptura or Cultura: Is There a Sola in There? – Keith E. Eitel
• Did Cape Town 2010 Correct the “Edinburgh Error?” – David J. Hesselgrave
• Introduction to McGavran’s Thoughts on the Church and Denominations – John M. Morris
• The Church, the Denominations, and the Body – Donald McGavran
• Wrinkling Time in the Missionary Task – John D. Massey
• Review Essay (Part One): John Calvin on the Death of Christ and the Reformations Forgotten Doctrine of Universal Vicarious Satisfaction – David W. Ponter
• Review Essay of Whoever Will – Mark T. Coppenger
• Book Reviews

​​Volume 54, No. 2 – Spring 2012
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

The Southern Baptist Convention at the end of the twentieth century was characterized by growth in mission and excitement over theology. The growth in mission was represented in the evangelistic aspirations expressed in the Bold Mission Thrust adopted by the convention. The excitment over theology was recaptiulated in the report of the Peace Committee led by Charles G. Fuller and adopted by the convention. This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology (SWJT) focuses on that second aspect of Southern Baptist life in the latter half of the twentieth century, our theology.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Southern Baptist Theology in the Twentieth Century: A Denomination Coming of Age – David S. Dockery
• Herschel Harold Hobbs: Pastoral and Denominational Expositor-Theologian – James Leo Garrett, Jr
• From Denominational Statesman to Rejected Leader; From Neglected Author to Recovered Author? – James Leo Garrett, Jr
• Theological Drift–World War II-1979 – Paige Patterson
• Roping the Whirlwind–A Renaissance Plan – Paige Patterson
• To Rejoice or Not–An Assessment – Paige Patterson
• Book Reviews

Volume 54, No. 1 – Fall 2011
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to the topic of “Historical Theology.” The benefits of studying history are many. It can be of tremendous assistance to us in the present day. For example, history helps us to understand and gain perspective on our current situation and thinking. It can answer questions like: “How did we get to where we are now?” “Where did that idea or line of thought originate?” “From what tradition did that opinion stem?” In other words, history provides us with fresh insights from past knowledge as we evaluate and make sense of our present. History also helps us learn not to repeat the mistakes of the past and enables us to see how people long ago met challenges and dealt with the crises, problems, and obstacles that came their way. History is especially valuable when studying theology because it gives us a look at the specific contexts in which theologies were created, developed, and defined. This describes historical theology.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Outrageous Quotes by New Atheists
• Introduction to New Atheism: Apologetics and the Legacy of Alvin Plantinga – John D. Laing
• The New Atheists: Lessons for Evangelicals – John D. Laing
• Should We Fear that We are Deluded? Comments on Dawkins’ The God Delusion – John B. Howell
• The Tergiversation of Antony Flew: A Review and Assessment of There is a God – John D. Wilsey
• How to Debate an Atheist – If You Must – William A. Dembski
• Book Reviews

Volume 53, No. 2 – Spring 2011
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

The desire of believers to display real faith through appropriate action is rooted in the witness of Scripture and exemplified in Christian history. Jesus Christ asked this haunting question of those who wished to identify themselves as His disciples: “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” The Lord proceeded to illustrate the difference between two types of disciples with an architectural metaphor. One disciple comes to Christ, hears His words, “and acts on them.” This one is praised as having penetrated to “the rock” and built his house upon Him. This one is an authentic disciple, manifesting his beliefs in action. The second type, however, hears the Lord’s words, “and has not acted accordingly.” The second disciple is not founded upon the rock, so that when judgment comes, “the ruin of that house was great.” The second disciple is a hypocrite, a person whose actions do not match his claims. These are the two disparate options present to those who hear Christ: authentic discipleship or hypocrisy.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• When Hope Screams: Learning How to Suffer as Sons from the Book of Hebrews – Ched E. Spellman
• True Discipleship: Radical Voices form the Swiss Brethren to Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Today – W. Madison Grace
• Emerging Church Hermeneutics and the Historical-Grammatical Method – Jason S. Sexton
• The Twenty-First Century Believer and Entertainment: Living Radically in the Age of Distraction – Matthew C. Millsap
• Seeing Jesus Clearly: A Sermon from Mark 8:22-23 – J. Josh Smith
• Review Essay: Did God Abandon Jesus at the Cross? – Gerardo A. Alfaro
• Book Reviews

Volume 53, No. 1 – Fall 2010
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

Christianity wages warfare against two opposing worldviews: mysticism, which would dismiss reason entirely, and scientism, which would exalt reason unduly. Both are manifested in contemporary culture. For many in our age, modern science seems to be dissolving before the acidic onslaught of a mystical postmodernism. Even more recently, a resurgent militant atheism has attacked any form of theism as incompatible with enlightened rationality. As an historical and intellectual yet spiritual and simple faith, Christianity takes firm stands against both the mystical and the scientistic errors. On the one hand, our faith depends upon the eyewitness of the apostles, who literally saw the God-man die and were then amazingly transformed by Jesus’ bodily resurrection. On the other hand, our faith is based on a hope that we ourselves may neither see nor measure in the same way that a geometrician calculates the hypotenuse of a triangle or a physicist measures the speed of light. Christianity does not fit within the modernist or the postmodernist worldviews, because it sublimely integrates historical objectivity with spiritual fideism.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• A Brief History of the Dead Sea Scrolls – Eric Mitchell
• The Significance of the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls – Peter W. Flint
• Second Temple Exegetical Practices: Extra-Biblical Examples of Exegesis Compared with Those in the Book of Hebrews – Herbert W. Bateman
• The Origin of Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Ryan E. Stokes
• Qumran Quagmire: Recent Debates Regarding the Identification of the Site – Steven M. Ortiz
• Book Reviews

Volume 52, No. 2 – Spring 2010
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting this virtue of reading. Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Seminary, begins the issue with a short explanation of why he strongly encourages all of his students to obtain 1,500 physical volumes prior to their graduation. Afterwards, Mark Leeds, our Registrar, presents a compelling essay in defense of why reading must be considered a virtue for the Christian. The remainder of the issue is composed of book reviews from various professors, pastors, and advanced theological students. Our Editorial hope in bringing these reviews from experts within the various theological disciplines into one issue is that their constructively critical, keen, and appreciative minds will inform your own reading practices. The reviews have been arranged by subject area, typically alphabetically but canonically within the field of biblical studies and chronologically within the field of historical studies.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Finding Friends – Paige Patterson
• The Virtue of Reading – Mark Leeds
• Review Essays
• Book Reviews

Volume 52, No. 1 – Fall 2009
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting Biblical Investigations.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• The Message of the Pentateuch – Joshua E. Williams
• The Church as “One New Man”: Ecclesiology and Anthropology in Ephesians – Sang-Wong (Aaron) Son
• A Greek Lectionary Manuscript at Southwestern Seminary – John W. Taylor
• Pre-Constantinian Nomina in a Mosaic and Church Graffiti – James R. Wicker
• Appraising Recent New Testament Studies – B. Paul Wolfe
• Review Essays

Volume 51, No. 2 – Spring 2009
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting the Foundations of our Faith.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Foundations of our Faith – Benajah Harvey Carroll and Calvin Goodspeed

Volume 51, No. 1 – Fall 2008
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting Baptists and Unity.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Lee Rutland Scarborough
• Walter Thomas Conner
• Charles Bray Williams
• James Bruton Gambrell
• Harvey Eugene Dana
• Franz Marshall McConnell
• Texas Baptists
• Southern Baptists
• Review Essays
• Books Reviewed
• Books Received

Volume 50, No. 2 – Spring 2008
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting Discipleship.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Christology of Preaching – Steven W. Smith
• “To Emulate and Imitate”: Possidius’ Life of Augustine as a Fifth Century Discipleship Tool – Edward L. Smither
• The Attraction of Beauty in an Ugly World: On the Relationship of Discipling and Evangelism – Benjamin B. Phillips
• The Experiential Theory of Augustus Hopkins Strong After a Century – Timothy K. Christian
• It Takes a Church to Make a Disciple: An Integrative Model of Discipleship for the Church – Chris Shirley
• Books Reviewed
• Books Received

Volume 50, No. 1 – Fall 2007
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting the Bible.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• In Memoriam – Mark Leeds
• Luther Russell Bush III – Jason G. Duesing
• Understanding Biblical Inerrancy – L. Russ Bush
• The Issue is Truth – Paige Patterson
• Is Inerrancy Sufficient? A Plea to Biblical Scholars – Denny R. Burk
• Books Reviewed
• Books Received

Volume 49, No. 2 – Spring 2007
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting Missiology.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Will We Correct the Edinburgh Error? Future Mission in Historical Perspective – David J. Hesselgrave
• Evangelical Agnosticism: Crafting a Different Gospel – Keith E. Eitel
• Mortar and Stones: Biblical Principles for Planting and Building Strong Churches in Any Culture – Dietmar W. Schulze
• “For Those who Spurn the Sprinkled Blood!” Praying with Charles Wesley for Muslims – Michael A.G. Haykin
• Shall We “Build Bridges” or “Pull Down Strongholds”? – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Books Reviewed
• Books Received

Volume 49, No. 1 – Fall 2006
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting the Family.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Southern Baptist Sexual Revolutionaries – Russell D. Moore
• Exchanging the Natural for the Unnatural – Evan Lenow
• My Son, Be Strong – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• The Biblical Model of Adoption – John M. Yeats
• It is not Hillary’s Fault – Thomas White
• Books Reviewed
• Books Received

Volume 48, No. 2 – Spring 2006
Managing Editor: Malcolm B. Yarnell III

This issue of the Southwestern Journal of Theology is devoted to promoting British Baptists.

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• Editorial – Malcolm B. Yarnell III
• Transcriber’s Preface – W. Madison Grace II
• An Orthodox Creed – Thomas Monck et al
• Transcriber’s Preface – A. Chadwick Mauldin
• Dialogue Between the Baptist and the Presbyterian – Thomas Grantham
• Transcriber’s Preface – Colin McGahey
• Slavery Inconsistent with Christianity – Robert Robinson
• Books Reviewed
• Review Essays