Of note for the readers of this blog is my colleague here in San Diego Michael Brown’s article on the covenant theology of the Puritan, Samuel Petto, based on his recent M.A. thesis at Westminster Seminary California.

Here are contents:

Calvin’s Doctrine of the Imputation of Christ’s Righteousness: Another Example of “Calvin against the Calvinists”?—Cornelis P. Venema

Calvin and the Dual Aspect of Covenant Membership: Galatians 3:15–22—The Meaning of “‘the Seed’ is Christ”—and Other Key Texts—J. Mark Beach

A Third-Way Reformed Approach to Christ and Culture: Approaching Kuyperian Neo-Calvinism and the Two Kingdoms Perspective—Ryan McIlhenny

Orthodoxy and Piety in the Nadere Reformatie: The Theology of Simon Oomius—Gregory D. Schuringa

Robert Rollock’s Catechism on God’s Covenants—trans. and introduced by Aaron C. Denlinger

Christ and the Condition: Samuel Petto (c. 1624–1711) on the Mosaic Covenant—Michael Brown

On Being a Church Planter—Daniel R. Hyde

BIBLICAL STUDIES

Bright Shadows: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (2)—David Murray

Heart-Reading: Recovering a Spiritual Approach to the Bible—Gerald Bilkes

Significance of Suffering in the Study of First Peter—Brian Najapfour

Love of the Brethren in 1 John and Church History—Michael A.G. Haykin

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY

Cur Deus Homo? A Closer Look at the Atonement Theories of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux—Jonathon Beeke

Calvin on the Promises of God—Pieter DeVries

Omnipotent Sweetness? Puritanism versus Socinianism—Joel M. Heflin

“To Walk According to the Gospel”: The Origin and History of The Marrow of Modern Divinity—William Van Doodewaard

The Reformed Dogmatics of G.H. Kersten Compared with His Older Contemporaries, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck—Pieter Rouwendal

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY

Calvin as an Experiential Preacher—Joel R. Beeke

Blessedness in the Piety of William Perkins: Objective Reality or Subjective Experience?—Stephen Yuille

The Biblical-Experimental Foundations of Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Religious Experience, 1720–1723—Karin Spiecker Stetina

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS

According to the Custom of the Ancient Church? Examining the Roots of John Calvin’s Liturgy—Daniel R. Hyde

John Calvin and Missions—Derek Thomas

Five Reasons why the Sabbath is Designed for Worship—Ryan M. McGraw

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES

Can We Hope for a Neocalvinist-Neopuritan Dialogue?—Ray Pennings

Because Men Love Darkness: Culture’s Dangerous Infatuation with Halloween—David J. Bissett

Interview with Joel Beeke about Reformed Churches and Seminaries

REVIEW ARTICLES

Theology of the Old Testament—Pieter DeVries

Continuity or Discontinuity in Evangelical History—Sharon James

Jay E. Adams, Keeping the Sabbath Today?—Ryan M. McGraw

The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism—Randall J. Pederson

BOOK REVIEWS

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.

Wendy Horger Alsup, Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in our Daily Lives—Tracy Mickle

Josh Moody, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.

M. X. Lesser, Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729–2005—Randall J. Pederson

George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards—Randall J. Pederson