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The Institute for Reformed Theology is pleased to present the IRT Bulletin. Some of today's most important theological thinkers from the Reformed family of denominations, as well as distinguished members of other communions, are numbered among our authors. Published three times a year, the IRT Bulletin features articles of interest to the Reformed community on theology, ethics,and Reformed history that are relevant to both church, academy and world. Each issue features book reviews, news from the IRT and its affiliates, and more. You are invited to browse through the table below for an idea of the variety and quality of materials we present.

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IRT Bulletin Index
Spring/Summer 2007, Vol. 7, #1 Feature Article: Theology among the Arts and Sciences By Douglas F. Ottati Book Reviews: Shaping the Christian Life: Worship and the Religious Affections by Kendra G. Hotz and Matthew T. Mathews Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions by J. Albert Harrill The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards by William J. Danaher Jr. Shaping Up: Re-Forming Reformed Worship by Ernest Marvin The Reformation for Armchair Theologians by Glenn S. Sunshine The Word of Christ and the World of Culture by Paul Louis Metzger Other Articles: IRT News IRT Affiliate News		PDF Version
Fall 2006, Vol. 6, #2 Feature Article: American Methodists on Calvinism and Presbyterianism By Russell E. Richey Book Reviews Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness by Joseph L. Mangina and Conversing With Barth by John C. McDowell and Mike Higton Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, ca. 1520 to ca. 1725 by Richard A. Muller Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 1: Prologomena by Herman Bavinck 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Imagining Redemption by David H. Kelsey For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth and the Future of Ecclesial Theology edited by George Hunsinger King, Priest, and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement by Robert Sherman Other Articles: IRT News IRT Public Lecture IRT Affiliate News		PDF Version
Spring 2006, Vol. 6, #1 Feature Article: The Generosity of God: the Witness of the Reformed Tradition By Randall C. Zachman Book Reviews: Before God by George Stroup Notes on the Holiness of God by David Willis Postmodern Christianity: Doing Theology in the Contemporary World by John W. Riggs The Divine Decision: A Process Doctrine of Election by Donna Bowman A More Profound Alleluia: Theology and Worship in Harmony edited by Leanne Van Dyk The Worshiping Life: Meditations on the Order of Worship by Lisa Nichols Hickman Does Christianity Teach Male Headship? The Equal-Regard Marriage and Its Critics edited by David Blankenhorn, Don Browning, and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen Educating for Shalom: Essays on Christian Higher Education by Nicholas Wolsterstorff Other Articles: IRT News IRT Public Lectures IRT Affiliate News		PDF Version
Fall 2005, Vol. 5, #1 Feature Article: A Brief Look at the "Reformed" By Louis B. Weeks Book Reviews: Gateways to Dogmatics: Reasoning Theologically for the Life of the Church by Gerhard Sauter The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian by Carol Thysell Charles Hodge Revisited: A Critical Appraisal of His Life and Work edited by John W. Stewart and James H. Moorhead Recovering Mother Kirk: the Case for Liturgy in the Reformed Tradition by D. G. Hart The Puritan as Yankee: The Life of Horace Bushnell by Robert Bruce Mullin Father, Son and Holy Spirit: Toward a Fully Trinitarian Theology by Colin E. Gunton Practicing Theology: Belief and Practices in Christian Life edited by Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass Other Articles: IRT Colloquies IRT Public Lecture IRT Affiliate News		PDF Version
Fall 2004, Vol. 4, #2 Feature Article: Observations on the Current State of Reformed Theology By Gerhard Sauter Other Articles News from the Director, By George Telford IRT Affiliate News Book Reviews In Quest of Pentecost: Jodocus van Lodenstein and the Dutch Second Reformation by Carl J. Schroeder John Calvin: Writings on Pastoral Piety edited and translated by Elsie Anne McKee Covenant and Eschatology: The Divine Drama by Michael Horton The Trustworthiness of God: Perspectives on the Nature of Scripture edited by Paul Helm and Carl R. Trueman Reconciliation: Restoring Justice by John W. de Gruchy Sex Crimes: From Renaissance to Enlightenment by William Naphy The Marks of God’s Children by Jean Taffin		PDF Version
Winter 2004, Vol. 4, #1 Feature Articles: Christ at the Center: The Legacy of the Reformed Tradition By Dennis Tamburello Reformed Theology and African American Presbyterian Worship By Edward Newberry Book Reviews The Binding of God: Calvin's Role in the Development of Covenant Theology by Peter A. Lillback Hope in Barth's Eschatology: Interrogations and Transformations Beyond Tragedy by John C. McDowell Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God's Openness by Clark H. Pinnock Engaging in God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. Growing Toward Unity edited by Elisabeth Slaughter Hilke Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian Responsibility by Stephen G. Ray God's Renaissance Man: Abraham Kuyper by James E. McGoldrick Educating for Life: Reflections on Christian Teaching and Learning by Nicholas P. Wolterstorff Worship: Reformed According to Scripture by Hughes Oliphant Old Bilblical Poetics Before Humanism and Reformation by Christopher Ocker Baptism in the Reformed Tradition: An Historical and Practical Theology by John W. Riggs Other Articles IRT Colloquies IRT Public Lecture IRT Affiliate News		PDF Version
Spring/Summer 2003, Vol. 3, #2 Feature Article: Jonathan Edwards in Modernity: A Review Essay By Mark Valeri Other Articles News from the Director, By George Telford IRT Affiliate News Book Reviews Karl Barth’s Anthropology in Light of Modern Thought by Daniel J. Price The Piety of John Witherspoon: Pew, Pulpit, and Public Forum by L. Gordon Tait Spirituality and Social Ethics in John Calvin: A Pneumatological Perspective by Paul Chung The Theology of the Reformed Confessions by Karl Barth, translated and annotated by Darrell L. Guder and Judith J. Guder German Calvinism in the Confessional Age: The Covenant Theology of Caspar Olevianus by Lyle D. Bierma Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical Enterprise edited by Willem J. van Asselt and Eef Dekker All Things New: Reform of Church and Society in Schleirmacher’s Christian Ethics by James M. Brandt He Shines in All That’s Fair: Culture and Common Grace by Richard J. Mouw Nothing Greater, Nothing Better edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer		PDF Version
Winter 2003, Vol. 3, #1 Feature Article: Reformation Theology and the Reformed Profile By Michael Welker Special to this issue: John Haddon Leith: In Memoriam By James C. Goodloe, IV Book Reviews What Happens in Holy Communion? by Michael Welker The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth edited by John Webster Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth by George Hunsinger Invitation to Theology: A Guide to Study, Conversation, and Practice by Michael Jinkins The Christian Faith: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine by Colin Gunton Calvin For Armchair Theologians by Christopher Elwood Grace and Its Fruits: Selections from John Calvin on the Pastoral Epistles edited by Joseph Hill		PDF Version
Summer 2002, Vol. 2, #4 Feature Article: The MegaChurch and the Liturgical Reform Movement: Beyond the Impasse? By John Riggs Book Reviews: To Glorify God: Essays on Modern Reformed Liturgy edited by Brian Spinks Registers of the Consistory of Geneva in the Time of Calvin edited by Kingdon, Lambert and Watts. The Starting Point of Calvin’s Theology by George H. Tavard. Reformed Thought and Scholasticism: The Arguments for the Existence of God by John Platt Introducing the Reformed Faith by Donald K. McKim God's Being Is in Becoming: The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of Karl Barth by Eberhard Jüngel		PDF Version
Winter 2002, Vol. 2, #3 Feature Articles: The Church as Prophetic Sentinel By Eberhard Busch Justice as a Mark of the Church By H.S. Wilson Book Reviews Theology in the Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Thomas W. Gillespie edited by Wallace M. Alston, Jr. Dictionary of the Presbyterian & Reformed Tradition in America edited by D. G. Hart and Mark Noll Sovereign Grace: The Place and Significance of Christian Freedom in John Calvin’s Political Thought by William R. Stevenson Jr. Covenantal Rights: A Study in Jewish Political Theory by David Novak. The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundations of a Theological Tradition by Richard A. Muller Books Briefly Noted Other Articles Public Lecture Features PC(USA) Worship Officer		PDF Version
Spring/Summer 2001, Vol. 2, #2 Feature Articles: The Challenge and Promise of Reformed Theology By Randall Zachman Double Predestination: The Elected Ones and the Crowd of the Condemned By Jürgen Moltmann Book Reviews: Barth's Moral Theology: Human Action in Barth's Thought by John Webster The Works of Janathan Edwards, Volume 17, Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733 edited Mark Valeri To Glorify God: Essays on Modern Reformed Liturgy edited by Bryan D. Spinks and Iain R. Torrance The Legacy of John Calvin edited by David Foxgrover What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin's Doctrine of Faith in Its Exegetical Context by Barbara Pitkin Other Articles: News of the Institute Reformed Theology News and Announcements		PDF Version
Fall 2000, Vol. 2, #1 Feature Articles: The following are the fourth and fifth parts in our series of statements by some of our most distinguished living Reformed theologians on the doctrinal task of the Reformed churches today. Part IV: Reformed Ecumenics By Gabriel Fackre Part: V: The Doctrinal Task of the Reformed Church By Shirley C. Guthrie Book Reviews: Reformed Confession: Theology from Zurich to Barmen by Jan Rohls, translated by John Hoffmeyer John Calvin: Student of the Church Fathers by Anthony N. S. Lane Saving and Secular Faith: An Invitation to Systematic Theology by B. A. Gerrish Other Articles: News of the Institute Reformed Theology News and Announcements		PDF Version
Spring/Summer 2000, Vol. 1, #2 Feature Articles: The following are the second and third parts in our series of statements by some of our most distinguished living Reformed theologians on the doctrinal task of the Reformed churches today. Part II: A Theme for Today's Reformed Theologians By Jane Dempsey Douglass Part III: The Way in which Reformed Churches Undertake their Doctrinal Task By John W. de Gruchy Book Review: The Pilgrim Road: Sermons on Christian Life, by B. A. Gerrish		PDF Version
INAUGURAL ISSUE Fall 1999, Vol. 1, #1 Feature Article: An historic address by the great 20th century Reformed theologian Karl Barth begins our series of statements by some of our most distinguished Reformed theologians on the doctrinal task of the Reformed churches today. The Doctrinal Task of the Reformed Churches By Karl Barth Book Reviews: Toward the Future of Reformed Theology: Tasks, Topics, Traditions edited by David Willis and Michael Welker Christian Faith as Religion: A Study in the Theologies of Calvin and Schleiermacher by Paul Capetz Why Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible in a Time of Church Conflict by John P Burgess		PDF Version

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