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1999

Issue: 1999 113/4

Editorial Gerald Bray Lay Administration at the Lord's Supper  John Woodhouse Lay Administration and the 16th Century  Robert Doyle Admitting Children to Holy Communion  Donald Allister The Priority of Preaching  John Cheeseman All one Body We 'A Personal Opinion of Establishment, Voluntaryism, Connexcionalism and Independency'  David Streater

Issue: 1999 113/3

Review of The gift of authority - Authority in the Church III Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission (ARCIC) (London: Catholic Truth Society 1999)  Gerald Bray The Significance of John Calvin Today  David Streater Bishop J C Ryle  Eric Russell Reformed Epistemology  Paul Blackham Reversal or Betrayal? Evangelicals and Socio-political Involvement in the Twentieth Century  Melvin Tinker Editorial  Gerald Bray

Issue: 1999 113/2

Baptism as a Means of Grace: A Response to John Stott's ‘The Evangelical Doctrine of Baptism'   Thomas Harvey Umbrellas, Greatcoats and Polished Shoes, and the Spirituality of Charles Simeon  Alan Munden An Alternative Theology of the Holy Land: A Critique of Christian Zionism  Stephen Sizer Justification by Faith Yesterday and Today  David Streater Editorial  Gerald Bray

Issue: 1999 113/1

Reflections on the Lambeth Conference 1998  Wallace Benn Reflections on the Lambeth Conference 1998  Terence Kelshaw Lambeth 1998 - the Death of Anglicanism Mark Burkill The 450th Anniversary of The Prayer Book'  Peter Toon A Window on Wimber and Healing  Keith Warrington Amos and Hosea: Two Perspectives on the Last Days of Israel Arthur Pollard Editorial  Gerald Bray

1998

Issue: 1998 112/4

Friendship and the Cradle of Liberalism: Revisiting the Moravian Roots of Schleiermacher's Theology  Mark DeVine 'Ye Meant to do me Evil; but God Meant it for Good'  Douglas Spanner Practical Catholicism: John Wesley's Theology of Bishops Reconsidered  Eric Richard Griffin Rite-ly Dividing the Word!...  Dennis Peterson 'A' is for Alpha, 'B' is for Berean  William Scholes Editorial  Gerald Bray

Issue: 1998 112/3

Bishops and Baxter  John Pearce The 'Locus' of the Church - Heaven or Earth?  David Peterson Grounding Biblical Metaphor in Reality: The Philosophical Basis of Realist Metaphorical Language  Simon Walker Geology and Genesis Unearthed  Michael B Roberts Cohabitation and the Church: A Short Response to Keith Warrington  Ted Pratt Editorial  Gerald Bray

Issue: 1998 112/2

The Pastor's Self-Care  Barry Shucksmith Clergy Stress, Causes and Suggested Coping Strategies     Alan G Palmer 'To Our Own People Only': Re-owning Original Anglicanism     John P Richardson The Revised Common Lectionary  Roger Beckwith Trends in Common Worship David Phillips Language, Symbols and Sacraments: Was Calvin's View of the Lord's Supper Right?  Melvin Tinker Editorial  Gerald Bray

Issue: 1998 112/1

The Ongoing Story of Biblical Interpretation  John Goldingay Justification and the New Covenant  Bill Dumbrell So I Send You : A Response to Chris Wright's Response  Melvin Tinker Vocations and Changes to the Priesthood  Adrian Vincent The Evangelical Doctrine of Baptism  John Stott An English Prayer Book for Today?  David Streater Editorial  Gerald Bray

1997

Issue: 1997 111/4

Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Democracy and the Church  David Streater Evangelicals in the Church of England  George Curry So I send You: A Study Guide to Mission by Roger Bowen            A response to Melvin Tinker's Review  Chris Wright The Reformer's View of Inspiration  Philip Edcumbe Hughes To Know and Serve God: A Biography of James I Packer by Allister McGrath: An Extended Review  Gerald Bray

Issue: 1997 111/3

Basil Atkinson: A Key Figure for Twentieth Century Evangelical Annihilationsim  Robert A Peterson The Curse of Covenant Reversal: Deuteronomy 28:56-68 and Israel's Exile  Peter M Head Extra Christum Nulla Salus?  Mike Thompson Challenging Deconstruction: A Look at Persons, Texts and Hermeneutics  Simon Walker Evangelicals, Anglicans and Ritualism in Victorian England Nigel Scotland

Issue: 1997 111/2

Ut Unum Sint  Roger Beckwith The Place of the Imprecatory Psalms in the Canon of Scripture  John Shepherd Cohabitation and the Church  Ken Warrington What is 'Truth' ?  George Curry Being Clearly and Positively Evangelical Mark Thompson

Issue: 1997 111/1

Neither 'Worship' nor 'Biblical': A Response to Alastair Campbell  John Richardson Personal Standards  J.I. Packer The Place of the Imprecatory Psalms in the Canon of Scripture  John Shepherd Did Mary Remain a Virgin?  William J Bridcut Terminology and the Evangelical  Tony Ive The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version  Peter O'Brien

1996

Issue: 1996 110/4

The Righter Trial and Church Discipline  Stephen F Noll A Response to the Opinion of the Court for the Trial of a Bishop Biblical Church Discipline  Daniel Wray Thomas Cranmer: A Life - Two Reviews Rudolph Heinze & Arthur Pollard

Issue: 1996 110/3

The Righter Trial and Christian Doctrine  Stephen Noll 'Evangelicals and Catholics Together' A Movement of `Watershed Significance'?  Murray, Ian H. The Problem with Abraham: Justin Martyr's Use of Abraham in the Dialogue with Tryphoa the Jew  Timothy Horner Revising the Revision  Roger Beckwith The Major Shift: Doctrine in the ASB 1980  Dennis Peterson

Issue: 1996 110/2

The St Andrew's Day Statement Is Hell Forever?  Douglas Spanner The Hell of Non-Being  Paul Blackman Once More: Is Worship `Biblical'?  Alastair Campbell The Neglected Reformer: Martin Luther through Anglican Eyes John Richardson The Bible and the Church  Wallace Benn

Issue: 1996 110/1

Worthy of His Hire: The Christian in Paid Employment  John Lindeck Lessons from the Past: The Discernment of Signs, Jonathan Edwards and the Toronto Blessing  Phil Roberts Counsel for Counsellors  Paul O'Gorman The Legal Theory of John Calvin  George J Gatgounis II The Political Theory of John Calvin  George J Gatgounis II

1995

Issue: 1995 109/4

The Turnbull Report: An Analysis  Hugh Craig Anselm's Doctrine of the Atonement: An Exegesis and Critique of Cur Deus Homo  Arthur Pollard Cranmer's Attitude to the Episcopate: Bishops, Priests and Deacons  Maurice Elliott The Giant and the Dwarfs  Maurice Elliott Charles Simeon of Cambridge  Ian Chapman John Henry Newman on the Human Person and the Gift of Faith  Michael Testa

Issue: 1995 109/3

Is Worship Biblical?  John Richardson The Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials Sin 'Not Unto Death' and Sin 'Unto Death' in 1 John 5.16  Tim Ward Cranmer's Attitude to the Monarchy: Royal Absolutism and the Godly Prince  Maurice Elliott Ecclesiastical Patronage in Trollope's Novels and Victoria's England  Jill Felicity Durey

Issue: 1995 109/2

Justification: The Reformers and Recent New Testament Scholarship  Gerald Bray New Blessing or Old Heresy?  Paul O'Gorman Cranmer's Attitude to the Papacy: 'And as for the Pope, I refuse Him as Christ's Enemy'  Maurice Elliott Two Treatises on Penance: An Inquiry into Tertullian's Exergesis and Montanism  Mark DeVine Orthodox Soteriology: Theosis  Paul Negrut 'The Autocracy of the Spirit'  Irina Levinskaya

Issue: 1995 109/1

Equipping to Minister A T de B Wilmot The Three Cycles of the Christian Year  Roger Beckwith Ticket to Toronto... and Beyond the Strawberry Fields? Jo Gardner &  Rachel Tingle The Suffering of Man and the Sovereignty of God  Melvin Tinker Cranmer, a Man under Authority  Maurice Elliott Cranmer's Attitude to the Bible: 'Lucerna pedibus meis verbum tuum'  Maurice Elliott

1994

Issue: 1994 108/4

The National Perspective  Stephen Trott Need Ministers be Theologians?  John Richardson George Whitefield: A Commemorative Address  Geoffrey Nuttall Gender and Ministry  Chris Green Abortion in the Bible  David Brattston The Priest and the Con Man  John Dearing

Issue: 1994 108/3

Marriage, Motherhood and Ministry: Women in the Dispute Between Thomas More and William Tyndale  Donald Smeeton Tyndale’s Use of the Blood of Christ in the Meaning of Baptism  Ralph Werrell An Apology for the Traditional Anglican Liturgy  M F M Clavier ‘It Seemed Good to the Holy Spirit and to us’? Some Thoughts on Decision-making in the Church, and on Christian Disagreement, in the Light of the Decision of the Church of England to Ordain Women to the Presbyterate  R T France ‘It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us’? A Reply to R T France  Melvin Tinker The Word of the Oath (Part 2) - The Church Society’s Application for Judicial Review of General Synod’s Vote of 1992 permitting the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood    Malcolm Barker Martin Luther as Human Being: Reflections from a Distance     James McNutt

Issue: 1994 108/2

Men, Women and God  Douglas C Spanner William Wilberforce - His Impact on Nineteenth-Century Society  Jonathan Bayes Preaching from the Song of Songs? Allegory Revisited  John    Richardson Revival in the Irish Church: A Study in Christology  Alan Acheson The Word of the Oath (Part 1) - The Church Society’s Application for Judicial Review of General Synod’s Vote of 1992 permitting the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood  Malcolm Barker

Issue: 1994 108/1

The Place of Private Judgment  David Samuel Three in One or One in Three: A Dipstick into the Isaianic Literature  Alec Motyer Original Sin In Patristic Thought  Gerald Bray Essays and Reviews (1860): The Advance of Liberalism   Roger Beckwith The Family Under Pressure  George Curry Hades, Hell and Purgatory in Ante-Nicene Christianity  David Brattston

1993

Issue: 1993 107/4

Renaissance and Reformation  David Streater The Danger of Doctine  David Mills A Church within a Nation: What Price Establishment?  Charles Hall An Abandonment of Hope: Martin Luther and the Jews  Jason Martin The Emergence of the Protestant Evangelical Tradition  Richard Turnbull

Issue: 1993 107/3

Nineteenth Century Liberalism and the Modern Missionary Movement  Barry Shucksmith Does the Christian View of Death Need Reviving?  Melvin Tinker Reading the Bible as the Word of God  Stephen Noll The Evangelical Revival: The Triumphant Phrase 1790-1830  Arthur Pollard The Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1992: A Lay Response: The Third Province Movement  Trevor Stevenson Crown and Canon: An Address to the Annual General Meeting of the Prayer Book Society  Enoch Powell

Issue: 1993 107/2

How Does God Speak To Us Today?: Biblical Anthropology and the Witness of the Holy Spirit  John Yates The Evangelical and Redaction Criticism  Stephen Smith Public Order and Spiritual Malaise in the 1990s  George Curry Facing the Challenge of Liberalism Donald Allister

Issue: 1993 107/1

The Function of the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament with Particular Reference to the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1992  Stephen Trott Straining at Gnats or Swallowing Camels? Doctrinal Change on 11 November, 1992   Michael Ovey The English Reformers' Teaching on Scripture  Ernest  Strickland The New Age Movement: An Outline and Assessment  Philip Barnes ‘Grace Abounding’ Imputed Righteousness in the Life and Work of John Bunyan  Robert Oliver

1992

Issue: 1992 106/4

Equipping the Saints: Ministry in the Twenty-first Century  Curry, George Victorian Evangelical Theology  Culberson, Eric The Chronology of the Crucifixon and Passover  Hamilton, John Towards a Christian View of Literature  Pollard, Arthur The Influence of Martin Bucer on the English Reformation  Dellar, Howard

Issue: 1992 106/3

‘Where the Spirit of God is there is power’: An Introduction to C.H.Spurgeon’s Teaching on the Holy Spirit  Haykin, Michael The Developing Role of Suffering in Salvation History  Amundsen, Darrel The Current Legislation to Ordain Women  Burkill, Mark Evangelicals and History  Samuel, David The Thirteen Articles  Bray, Gerald Not ‘Just for Sentiment’s Sake’: In Defence of Traditional Language Worship  Stackpole, Robert

Issue: 1992 106/2

The Teaching of the English Reformers on Ministry and Worship Dowse, Edgar New Religious Movements: Challange and Response  Riggans, Walter The British Delegation at the Synod of Dort: Assembling and Assembled; Returning and Returned  Dewar, Michael The Word in an Audio-Visual Age: Can We Still Preach the Gospel?  Vibert, Simon We Believe in One God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit  Sellery, David

Issue: 1992 106/1

Newman's Doctrine - Development or Deviation?  David Streater Archbishop Cranmer’s Immortal Bequest: The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England: An Evangelistic Liturgy  Samuel Leuenberger Battle for the Mind  Melvin Tinker The Perplexing Power of John Wimber’s Power Encounters  Donald Kammer Sixteenth Century Progressive and Twentieth Century Conservative: Reflections on Cranmer and the Eucharist  John Darch

1991

Issue: 1991 105/4

The Theology of John Calvin. Part Three: The Christian’s Conflict with the Devil  Adrian Hallett Are Opponents to Women Priests Sexists?  David Walker The Forgiveness of Post Baptisimal Sin in Ancient Christianity David Brattston Role of the Holy Spirit in the Lord's Supper  John Yates

Issue: 1991 105/3

The Theology of John Calvin. Part Two: The Christian’s Conflict with the Flesh  Adrian Hallett How Jesus Understood the Last Supper: A Parable in Action  David Wenham Brevard Childs and the Protestant Dogmaticians: A Window to a New Paradigm of Biblical Interpretation  Theodore Letis

Issue: 1991 105/2

The Theology of John Calvin. Part One: The Christian's Conflict wiht the World  Adrian Hallett Towards an Evangelical Ecclesiology (Part Two)  Melvin Tinker The English Reformers' Teaching on Salvation  Donald Allister Laying the Groundwork for Biblical Counselling  Elliott Larson

Issue: 1991 105/1

What is Conversion?  Tony Baker Towards an Evangelical Ecclesiology (Part One)  Melvin Tinker The Significance of the New Age Movement  Gavin McGrath The Doctrine of the Sacraments in the Thirty-Nine Articles  Roger Beckwith Inclusive Language Liturgies: The Renunciation of Revelation  David Curry

1990

Issue: 1990 104/4

Christianity in Soviet Russia (Part Two)  Gerald Bray Original Sin in Genesis 1-11  Gordon Wenham Whither the Reformation?  Michael Dewar Episcopacy and Authority  Lesslie Newbigin The Thought of St Augustine  Rod Garner In Memoriam: Dr Philip Edgcumbe Hughes  Roger Beckwith

Issue: 1990 104/3

Roots and Reformations  David Samuel Christianity in Soviet Russia (Part One)  Gerald Bray The Church of England and Politics  Rachel Tingle The Reformed Episcopalians: Restoring Some Old Paths  Allen Guelzo

Issue: 1990 104/2

Thomas Cranmer's 'True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament'  D A Scales Conflicts in Science and Faith: Ministers Beware!  Melvin Tinker Unity and Authority  David Ousley The Origins of Ascension Terminology  Elaine Jones

Issue: 1990 104/1

Thomas Cranmer After Five Hundred Years  Roger Beckwith Sola Scriptura: Some Historical and Contemporary Perspectives  Graham Cole The Pauline Names for God  Paul Ballard The Synods of Dort, the Westminster Assembly and the French Reformed Church 1618-1643  Michael Dewar Men, Women and the Presbyterate: Does Scripture Speak Clearly?  Tony Baker The Godly Prince and the National Church  David Dethridge