THE

WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Volume LXV

Spring, 2003

Fall, 2003

Nos. 1–2

published by

westminster theological seminary

chestnut hill

philadelphia, pennsylvania

CONTENTS

THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Reforming Theology: Toward a Postmodern Reformed Dogmatics By John R. Franke

The Divine and Human in the Seminary Curriculum By D. G. Hart

Jonathan Edwards’s Vision of Salvation By John J. Bombaro

Late Have I Loved You: Augustinian Spirituality in Book 10 of the Confessions By Laurence C. Sibley, Jr.

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Hebrews 6:4–6—Again! (A Pneumatological Inquiry) By Martin Emmrich

The New Structure of the Song of Songs and Its Implications for Interpretation By Andrew Hwang

God with Men in the Torah By James M. Hamilton, Jr.

SHORT STUDY

Why Did Moses Strike Out? The Narrative-Geographical Shaping of Moses’ Disqualification in Numbers 20:1–13 By John A. Beck

ABSTRACT OF RECENT WTS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

Message of Psalm 110 in Context: An Eschatological Interpretation By Jinkyu Kim

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Bill T. Arnold and Bryan E. Beyers, eds., Readings from the Ancient Near East

Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager, Life in Biblical Israel By Peter Enns

Dan O. Via, What Is New Testament Theology? By Craig B. Carpenter

Stephen J. Nichols, Martin Luther: A Guided Tour of His Life and Thought By Barry Waugh

Douglas A. Sweeney, Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards By Sean Michael Lucas

Sebastian Rehnman, Divine Discourse: The Theological Methodology of John Owen, Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought By Kelly M. Kapic

Daniel Howard-Snyder and Paul K. Moser, eds., Divine Hiddenness: New Essays By K. Scott Oliphint

Steven M. Bryan, Jesus and Israel’s Traditions of Judgment and Restoration By Craig A. Evans

INAUGURAL LECTURES

Biblical Theology and the Westminster Standards By Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.

Fleeing Forward: The Departure of Christians from Jerusalem to Pella By P. H. R. Van Houwelingen

LUTHER AND THE FINNISH SCHOOL

Mystical Union with Christ: An Alternative to Blood Transfusions and Legal Fictions By Paul Louis Metzger

Paul, Luther, and Justification in Gal 2:15–21 By Mark A. Seifrid

Is the Finnish Line a New Beginning? A Critical Assessment of the Reading of Luther Offered by the Helsinki Circle By Carl R. Trueman

Response to Seifrid, Trueman, and Metzger on Finnish Luther Research By Robert W. Jenson

BIBLICAL STUDIES

History in Genesis By Daniel Fleming

Apostolic Hermeneutics and an Evangelical Doctrine of Scripture: Moving Beyond a Modernist Impasse By Peter Enns

APOLOGETICS

Van Til and Transcendental Argument By Don Collett

Reply to Don Collett on Transcendental Argument By John M. Frame

RESPONSES

It Ain’t Necessarily So By Carl R. Trueman

Response to John Franke By Richard B. Gaffin, Jr.

Postmodern and Reformed? Response to Trueman and Gaffin By John R. Franke

REVIEW ARTICLE

The Westminster Assembly’s Unworkable and Unscriptural View of Worship? By T. David Gordon

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS

Reflections ...