Readers of the magazine will know that we feature a magazine or journal in the Book Notice section of every issue, rotating between Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox publications. From time to time we'll put them on Mere Comments as well. Here are the first three in the series, which started last October.
I write them as objectively as I can, if you're wondering about the lack of commentary. The fact that we include them in the magazine means that we think they should be commended to our readers' attention.
THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY
Each issue of the SBJT, a quarterly published by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, addresses a single theme. Recent issues have covered racial reconciliation, I Corinthians, the work of the Evangelical patriarch Carl F. H. Henry, and Roe v. Wade. Most issues include a substantial book review section and some a forum of the seminary’s professors and others speaking on the theme.
The latest issue (latest as this is written) addresses biblical theology, the discipline that “attempts to trace out the historical unfolding of Scripture and, thus, interpret Scripture in the light of its own presentation and categories,” as the editor puts it in his introduction. The contributors include the Australian scholar Graeme Goldsworthy, noted New Testament scholars Thomas Schreiner, D. A. Carson, Robert Yarbrough, and others.
The journal is edited by Stephen J. Wellum, who teaches theology at the seminary. Russell Moore, the seminary’s vice president for academic administration and also a senior editor of Touchstone, is the executive editor.
Subscriptions: $20 a year for individuals and $35 for institutions ($30 and $45 for those outside the U.S.)
Contact: The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, SBTS Box 832, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY 40280 / [email protected] / 800-626-5525, x4413.
Website: http://www.sbts.edu/resources/Publications/Journal.aspx
NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS QUARTERLY
Published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center, the quarterly addresses the range of questions “raised by the rapid pace of modern medical science” and “unites faith in Christ to reasoned and rigorous reflection of the findings of the empirical and experimental sciences.” It won the Catholic Press Association’s 2005 award for general excellence as a scholarly publication.
Each issue includes a “Washington Insider” reporting on the political side of bioethical issues (written, in the two issues to hand, by William Saunders of the Family Research Council and Richard Doerflinger of the American Catholic bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities); a lengthy editorial; short essays, generally more personal, and longer articles, generally more academic; a section summarizing current research and thinking and another giving abstracts of recent dissertations in bioethics and related areas; and book reviews.
Among the diverse subjects recently covered are human-animal chimeras, the Christian understanding of the embryo as a person, euthanasia as “an uncontrollable power over death,” the medicalization of birth, and Darwinian ideology versus divine design.
The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly is edited by Edward J. Furton and published by John Haas, director of the Center, who once served as a contributing editor of Touchstone.
Subscriptions: $48 a year for individuals ($60 international) and $165 for institutions
Subscription contact: 800-633-4931.
Website: www.ncbcenter.org.
AGAIN: THE ANCIENT CHRISTIAN FAITH TODAY
Again is a 34-page quarterly magazine published for Orthodox Christians in a popular format.
A recent issue on “Faith, Fantasy, and the Imagination” featured articles on the spiritual benefit of imaginative writers, C. S. Lewis, The Da Vinci Code, and an interview with John Granger, the Orthodox author of Finding God in Harry Potter. Another recent issue ranged from articles on fasting and other spiritual disciplines to Thomas Hopko’s description of the Orthodox understanding of same-sex attractions and a description of the Orthodox pastoral approach to those who suffer from it.
Each issue also includes an editorial, stories of the saints, a report on Orthodoxy today, a reflection titled “From up here . . . in Alaska” from an Orthodox priest serving as a missionary there, and a column titled “Meditate on These Things” by Touchstone senior editor Patrick Henry Reardon.
Again is published by Conciliar Press, a subsidiary of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. It is edited by Thomas Zell and includes as contributing editors Patrick Reardon, the syndicated columnist Terry Mattingley, and Michael Oleksa, author of the Alaska column. Peter Gillquist is the publisher.
Subscriptions: $16.00 a year ($38 for three years).
Contact: Conciliar Press, POBox 76, Ben Lomond, CA 95005
Website: www.conciliarpress.com.
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