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WESTMINSTERTHEOLOGICAL

JOURNAL

Fall 2015Vol. 77, No. 2

published by

WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYchestnut hill

philadelphia, pennsylvania 19118

issn: 0043-4388

Kenneth E. Bailey, The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New TestamentSherif Gendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Preston M. Sprinkle, Paul and Judaism Revisited: A Study of Divine and Human Agency in SalvationBrandon Szerlip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

T. Michael Halcomb and Fredrick J. Long, Mark; T. Michael Halcomb and Fredrick J. Long, Speak Koine Greek: A Conversational PhrasebookBrandon D. Crowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

James R. Edwards, The Gospel According to LukeBrandon D. Crowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Grant Macaskill, Union with Christ in the New TestamentJeffrey C. Waddington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

James W. Thompson, The Church According to Paul: Rediscovering the Community Conformed to ChristGuy Prentiss Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Jeffrey J. Niehaus, Biblical Theology, vol. 1: The Common Grace CovenantsMark Stephen Giacobbe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Jason S. Sexton, ed., Two Views on the Doctrine of the TrinityJosh Hayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Peter T. Sanlon, Augustine’s Theology of PreachingDeryck C. Barson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

A. Donald MacLeod, A Kirk Disrupted: Charles Cowan MP and the Free Church of ScotlandAlexander (Sandy) Finlayson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Iain H. Murray, Amy Carmichael: Beauty for AshesDiane M. Poythress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Richard J. Mouw, Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical ScholarsWilliam Edgar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Christine Helmer, Theology and the End of DoctrineRonald T. Michener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Hugh J. McCann, Creation and the Sovereignty of GodJames E. Dolezal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

W. Brian Shelton, Prevenient Grace: God’s Provision for Fallen HumanityFrancis X. Gumerlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436

Eugen J. Pentiuc, The Old Testament in Eastern Orthodox TraditionWilliam A. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Jackson Lashier, Irenaeus on the TrinityJonatan C. Simons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442

Garry J. Williams, Silent Witnesses: Lessons on Theology, Life, and the Church from Christians of the PastWilliam Edgar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

SHORT NOTICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451SEVEN-YEAR INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

CONTENTS — Continued

ABSTRACTS OF RECENT WTS DOCTORAL DISSERATATIONS

Zhuangzi and the Happy DaoJoanny Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Union with Christ in the Theology of Anthony Tuckney (1599–1670)Youngchun Cho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Postfoundational Epistemology and Christian Uniqueness: Coherentism in the Theology of Stanley J. GrenzMark Farnham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Reasoning by Presupposition: Clarifying and Applying the Center of Van Til’s ApologeticGabriel Nourse Emil Fluhrer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Fearless Symmetry: A Reformed Recouping of Northrop Frye’s Archetypal Criticism with Special Reference to the New Testament’s Use of the Old TestamentDavid Hallett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Those Who Weep Now Shall Laugh: Reversal of Weeping in the Gospel of LukeSung Min Hong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Sealing the Slaves of God: Revelation 7 in the Stream of Biblical-Christological InterpretationDaniel Istrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

The Theological Method of John Frame and Vern Poythress: Examining the Trinitarian Roots of PerspectivalismTim Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Christ as Champion: Hebrews 12:1–3 as an Appeal Through Whichthe Writer Instills Narrative Vision in order to Reorient ReadersJeffrey J. Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Yhwh Is a Gardener and Zion His Garden: A Study of the Garden Metaphor in the Book of IsaiahDuk Joon Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Thomas Cartwright and His Confutation: From English Presbyterian Gadfly to International Calvinist PropagandistJames David Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

The Center Holds: The Endurance of African-American ChristianityJocelyn E. Russell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

History and Trinity Reconsidered: A Reformed Evaluation of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Retroactive EschatologyR. Carlton Wynne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

John A Cook, Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb: The Expression of Tense, Aspect, and Modality; Ohad Cohen, The Verbal Tense System in Late Biblical Hebrew ProseMatthew H. Patton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Bryan R. Gregory, Inconspicuous Providence: The Gospel According to EstherStephen P. Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

CONTENTSBIBLICAL STUDIES

Rain Water versus a Heavenly Sea in Genesis 1:6–8Vern S. Poythress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Who Was Born When Enosh Was 90? A Semantic Reevaluation of William Henry Green’s Chronological GapsJeremy Sexton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Isaiah’s HeraldMatthew Seufert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Curse Redux? 1 Corinthians 5:13, Deuteronomy, and Identity in CorinthGuy Prentiss Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Like Father, Like Son: Unraveling the Proto-Trinitarian Approach of 2 ClementBrandon D. Crowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

The Breakdown of a Reformation Friendship: John Oecolampadius and Philip MelanchthonJeff Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Trinitarian Doxology: Reassessing John Owen’s Contribution to Reformed Orthodox Trinitarian TheologyRyan M. McGraw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

From Dogma to Practice: Systematic Theology and Application in the Sermons of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster AssemblyBreno Macedo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

On the Theological Interpretation of Scripture: The Indirect Identity Thesis, Reformed Orthodoxy, and Trinitarian ConsiderationsNathaniel Gray Sutanto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Where Person Meets WordPart 1: Personalism in the Language Theory of Kenneth L. PikePierce Taylor Hibbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

CONTENTS — Continued

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