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WESTMINSTERTHEOLOGICAL

JOURNAL

Spring 2016Vol. 78, No. 1

published by

WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYchestnut hill

philadelphia, pennsylvania 19118

issn: 0043-4388

David VanDrunen, Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural LawJeffrey C. Waddington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Gregg R. Allison, Roman Catholic Theology and Practice: An Evangelical AssessmentHoward Griffith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen, Christian Philosophy: A Systematic and Narrative IntroductionNathaniel Gray Sutanto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

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REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Iain Provan, Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It MattersWilliam A. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

John Goldingay, Isaiah for EveryoneTodd A. Scacewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Wesley Hill, Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline LettersGuy Prentiss Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Matthew W. Bates, The Birth of the Trinity: Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and Early Christian Interpretations of the Old TestamentBrandon D. Crowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Simon Gathercole, Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in PaulBrandon D. Crowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

John M. G. Barclay, Paul and the GiftGuy Prentiss Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Matthew Harmon, Philippians: A Mentor CommentaryMoisés Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Gregory S. MaGee, Portrait of an Apostle: A Case for Paul’s Authorship of Colossians and EphesiansTodd A. Scacewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Jeffrey A. D. Weima, 1–2 ThessaloniansDerek R. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Franciscus Junius, A Treatise on True Theology with the Life of Franciscus JuniusGreg Salazar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Gary Steward, Princeton Seminary (1812–1929): Its Leaders’ Lives and WorksAnnette G. Aubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain, Reformed Catholicity: The Promise of Retrieval for Theology and Biblical InterpretationR. Carlton Wynne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Hans Schwarz, The Christian Faith: A Creedal AccountRonald T. Michener . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Jeremy R. Treat, The Crucified King: Atonement and Kingdom in Biblical and Systematic TheologyDavid Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Anthony Thiselton, Systematic TheologyJohn M. Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

John Frame, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian BeliefRandall J. Pederson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Adonis Vidu, Atonement, Law and Justice: The Cross in Historical and Cultural ContextsGreg Salazar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

CONTENTS

BIBLICAL STUDIES

The Bible and the “Universal” Ancient World: A Critique of John WaltonNoel K. Weeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Correlations with Providence in Genesis 2Vern S. Poythress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

David in Ezra-NehemiahDean R. Ulrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Cosmic Bully or God of Grace? The Book of Job as MāšālDavid R. Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Presence of Genesis in EcclesiastesMatthew Seufert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Descendit : Delete Or Declare? A Defense Against The Neo-DeletionistsJeffery L. Hamm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Where Person Meets Word: Part 2, The Convergence of Personalism and Scripture in the Language Theory of Kenneth L. Pike

Pierce Taylor Hibbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117“Gifts” and Ministries in the Apostolic Fathers

Kenneth Berding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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