The Confessional Presbyterian Journal

09/07/2024

Back issue update: Vol. 2 (2006) of The Confessional Presbyterian journal is now out of print. Next lowest stock is vol. 9 with less than 23. Issues in print: 3-4, 6-7, 9, 11-16. There is a set sale of these for $200 ($275 retail; issues retail for $25). https://www.cpjournal.com/product/set-of-back-issues/ For Issues after volume 16, see GPTS/Log College Press https://www.logcollegepress.com/confessional-presbyterian-journal

07/03/2024

There are 5 sets or less of the 12 issue bundle of back issues (vols. 2-4, 6-7, 9, 11-16). Save $100 off retail. If you want to build as much of a complete set of The Confessional Presbyterian journal as possible, this is the way to do start. Out of print issues are vls 1, 5, 8, 10 and soon to join them vol. 2. No reprints are likely at this present time; you'll need to watch ebay or other used book sites for out of print issues.

Set of back issues in print (vols. 2-4, 6, 9, 11-16) 13 issues (USA only). Retail $325. Sale. $225 postage paid. This offer is limited because of the number of volume 2s left (5 or less as of March 6, 2024). Only one per customer.

05/01/2024

The promotional email sent out about v19 of The Confessional Presbyterian journal.

Confessional Presbyterian News: 2023's v19, back issues on sale

04/01/2024

With v19 in the can so to speak and in production for a due date in March, The Confessional Presbyterian is putting out a Call for Papers for the v20 2024 issue. Cover theme is William Perkins. https://gpts.edu/confessional-presbyterian-journal-20-call-for-papers/ GPTS has a website redesign in the works so if this link breaks in future, look under the news section for this Call for Papers.

The twentieth volume of The Confessional Presbyterian will feature an interdisciplinary collection of articles and book reviews pertinent to confessional Presbyterians of different denominations. The aim of the journal is to promote greater understanding and academic exploration of the doctrinal sta...

04/01/2024

The 2023 19th issue of The Confessional Presbyterian has been turned in to the book maker and copies should be available by March. You can subscribe to a regular subscription starting with v19 at the link. https://gpts.edu/cpjournal/ (the text may not be updated yet but the link is set to subscribe starting with v19). A website redo is pending so if you get a page error, look for updated links at the main url. Contents and Cover photos attached. This is the largest issue of the journal we have ever published with 328pp and you can see the many fine contributions listed. Starting with v17 the journal is published by Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Back issues of those that remain in print of v16 and prior may be ordered from the former publisher’s site, https://www.cpjournal.com/store/
Exactly 1 set remains of the 13 back issue offer containing the last available copy of v5 (vols 2-7, 9, 11-16). When that is gone v5 joins v1, v8 and v10 as out of print (no plans to reprint currently). Vol.5 is the “Calvin” cover issue and contains the important study of the Westminster assembly and the judicial law. The lowest in stock issue and next to go out of print is v2 with only 8 copies remaining.
19 The Confessional Presbyterian

2023 A Journal for Discussion of Presbyterian Doctrine & Practice
Table of Contents

2. Editorial
Articles
3. Obedient to the Great Commission: The Presbyterian Church in America at Fifty
By Zachary Groff
23. A Plea for Confessional Integrity in the PCA regarding the Second & Fourth Commandments
By Geoff Gleason
37. “Like a Box of Chocolates”: Experiencing PCA Worship
By Frank J. Smith
61. The History of the Formation of the Standing Judicial Commission
By Scott Cook
75. An Historical Study of Witnesses and their Oaths in the Courts of the Presbyterian Church in America
By Thomas E. Rickard
85. Morton Howison Smith: A Brief Sketch of His Life
By Joseph A. P**a, Jr.
105. The Not-Quite Founding Father: J. Gresham Machen and the Origins of the PCA
Sean G. Morris
125. Machen’s Other Warrior Children: Conservative Presbyterians in the OPC & PCA
By D. G. Hart
135. Southern Presbyterian Ecumenism: The PCUS–RCA Merger Plan, Northern Reunion, and the Formation of the PCA
By Zachary M. Garris
151. Ecclesial Unity and Creation Doctrine
By William VanDoodewaard
163. God’s Not-So-Ordinary Providence: Evaluating the Framework Hypothesis “Because It Had Not Rained Argument” from Ordinary Providence
By Zachary Groff
181. William Perkins on Conscience and Casuistry: Puritan Foundations for Reformed, Scriptural Ethics
By Jacob D. Ge**er
195. Recovering and Re-evaluating the Historical Interpretations of the Anti-Christ
By Ottavio Palombaro
203. We’ve Been Dating It All Wrong: Richard Denton (1603–1662) & the Arrival of American Presbyterianism
By Ryan Denton
(Contents continued on page 2).
Table of Contents Continued

209. The Doctrine of the Heavenly Intercession of Christ in the Writings of James Durham (1622–1668)
By Colin Dow
227. Who Was William Young? And What Did He Do for the Presbyterian Church
By Robert McInnes
243. James Durham: A New Biography, Part Two
By Chris Coldwell
261. Can a Christian Be an Objective Professional Historian? An Unorthodox Autobiographical Review Article of Ian Hugh Clary on Arnold Dallimore’s Historiography
By Ryan M. McGraw
271 Reviews & Responses: Nathan P. Feldmeth, S. Donald Fortson III, Garth M. Rosell, and Kenneth J. Stewart, Reformed and Evangelical across Four Centuries: The Presbyterian Story in America (Sean G. Morris) 271 ■ David W. Hall, Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America (Ryan Biese) 273 ■ Warfield’s Works, A Review & An Appreciation (Jeff A. Stivason) 274 ■ Christopher Watkin, Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible’s Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture (Benjamin Shaw) 276 ■ Lyle D. Bierma, Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism (Ryan M. McGraw) 278 ■ Gregory David Soderberg, As Often As You Eat This Bread: Communion Frequency in English, Scottish, and Early American Churches (Ryan Speck) 279 ■ G. K. Beale, Union with the Resurrected Christ: Eschatological New Creation and New Testament Biblical Theology (Roland Matthews) 286 ■ Willem van Vlastuin, Catholic Today: A Reformed Conversation About Catholicity (Thomas Haviland-Pabst) 290 ■ Alasdair J. MacLeod, John Kennedy of Dingwall, 1819-1884: Evangelicalism in the Scottish Highlands (Lane Keister) 292 ■ Mark D. Liederbach and Evan Lenow, Ethics As Worship: The Pursuit of Moral Discipleship (Lane Keister) 294 ■ L. Michael Morales, Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Zachary Groff) 296 ■
303 Psallo: Psalm 83:1–18
305 Antiquary: Did George Gillespie embellish his Notes recorded during the Westminster Assembly?
310 Bibliography
325 The Editors / Errata for Previous Issues
326 In Memoriam: David C. Lachman (1939–2023): A Tribute
. In Brief: In Brief: James Durham on the Unlawfulness of Making Images (35–36) ■ In Brief: The Regulative Principle of Worship (60) ■ In Brief: A New Denomination (1,974 years old!) (120–124) ■ In Brief: Personal Remembrances of Dr. J. L. Girardeau from Two of His Students (134) ■ In Brief: In Fifty Years Another Division? (150) ■ In Brief: Division, The Great Enemy of Edification and Reformation. (180) ■ In Brief: The First Beast is Antichrist in his kingdom (202)) ■ In Brief: Calvin to Knox on Baptism (208) ■ In Brief: “Your Sins Do Not Surprise God” (226) ■ In Brief: “Save Our Sabbath” (242) ■ In Brief: The PCA and The Federal Vision (260) ■

17/10/2023

On Confessional Presbyterian journal news, there is officially 1 set left of this 13 issue offer, and the volume 5 (the Calvin issue, with the big double article on the Westminster Assembly and the Judicial Law) is out of print. I may have a copy squirreled away for myself but no promises there will be any more set offers that contain v5. The in print issue set offer will drop to 12 issues. Next to go out of print is V2; inventory shows 13 but I only see 4.

Set of back issues in print (vols. 2-7, 9, 11-16) 13 issues (USA only). Retail $350. Sale. $250 postage paid. This offer is limited because of the number of volume 5s left (five or less left). Only one per customer.

21/07/2023

Highlighting back issues: Issue 12 (2016), one of the few issues almost fully on one theme, The Christian Sabbath or Lord's Day, is one of the more important issues in the serial. Thomas Peck (1822-1893) on the cover, as usual painted by Mike Mahon.
The Confessional Presbyterian 12 (2016)
This issue is 296 pp (approx. 267,902 words). Purchase this and other volumes see the online store. Direct link to this issue: https://www.cpjournal.com/product/the-confessional-presbyterian-volume-12-2016-forthcoming-june-2016/

Table of Contents

2. Editorial
Articles
3. Pastoral Letters on the Observance of the Sabbath
By Thomas E. Peck, T. V. Moore and Benjamin Morgan Palmer
29. Southern Presbyterian Sabbatarianism
By James Henley Thornwell, et al.
40. Dropping the Subject, Again? The Decline of Sabbatarianism in Old Southern Presbyterian Church and in the Presbyterian Church in America
By Chris Coldwell
100. The Doctrine of the Sabbath with a Particular look at its Application in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
By Benjamin P. Glaser
109. Politics, International Relations, and the Sabbath: The 1915 International Lord’s Day Congress
By Frank J. Smith
130. Leviticus 23 and the Christian Sabbath
By Benjamin Shaw
135. What Should a Typical Sabbath Look Like and Why?
By Ryan M. McGraw
142. The Christian Sabbath: Destiny not Drudgery
By Roy Mohon
149. John Calvin, the Nascent Sabbatarian
By Stewart E. Lauer
161. The Sabbath Day and Recreations on the Sabbath
By Lane Keister
173. Regulae de Observatione Sabbathi: The Synod of Dort’s (1618–19) Deliverance on the Sabbath
By Daniel R. Hyde
185. Our Reasonable Service: Sabbath Doctrine of the Nadere Reformatie
By Justin B. Stodghill
195. Is the Westminster Confession’s Doctrine of the Sabbath
a Judaizing Doctrine?
By Geoffrey L. Willour
206. The Fourth Commandment: Annulled or Sustained?
By Carl E. Erickson

210 Reviews & Responses: Terry L. Johnson, Worshipping with Calvin: Recovering the Historic Ministry and Worship of Reformed Protestantism and Serving with Calvin: Leading and Planning Services of Worship in the Reformed Church (Barry Waugh) 225 ■ Nicholas P. Lunn, The Original Ending of Mark: A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9–20 (Benjamin Shaw) 226 ■ John C. Clark and Marcus Peter Johnson, The Incarnation of God: The Mystery of the Gospel as the Foundation of Evangelical Theology (Scott Cook) 229 ■ Benjamin Morgan Palmer, The Broken Home; or Lessons in Sorrows (C. N. Willborn) 235 ■ Sean Michael Lucas, For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church (Lane Keister) 236 ■
239 Psallo: Psalm 5:1–12
242 In Translatiōne: John Brown of Wamphray: Recreations and the Sabbath
262 Antiquary: A Transcription of James Durham’s Sermon on Ephesians 4:11-12, taught before the Synod of Glasgow, October 5, 1652.
284 Bibliography
295 The Editors In Brief: The Lord’s Day is no Human Constitution (134) ■ In Brief: John Owen on Isaiah 58:13 (141) ■ In Brief: Zanchius on “Remember the Sabbath day” (148) ■ In Brief: We must rest also from speaking & hearing of worldly matters (172) ■ In Brief: The Sabbath Day a Creation Ordinance (183) ■ In Brief: Junius on the Morality of a Sabbath day (203) ■

The Confessional Presbyterian Volume 12 (2016) 296pp. Cover: Thomas E. Peck (1822–1893) Table of Contents 2. Editorial Articles 3. Pastoral Letters on the Observance of the Sabbath. By Thomas E. Peck, T. V. Moore and Benjamin Morgan Palmer 27. Southern Presbyterian Sabbatarianism. By James Henley ...

21/07/2023

The partial sets (13 issues) of the CPJ is down to 5 or less sets available and then v5 will be out of print and unavailable (Calvin cover; important research on the Westminster Assembly and the Judicial Law and other fine material in v5). See link.

Currently all issues except for v1 (2005), v8 (2012) and v10 (2014) remain in print and available for purchase. A few (less than 10) v10s are available as part of back issue partial set orders on an offsite offer. Contact us if interested. The Confessional Presbyterian 1 (2005)The Confessional Presb...

21/07/2023

There are 5 or fewer partial sets of 13 back issues of The Confessional Presbyterian journal, which will exhaust the 5 or fewer v5s left (Calvin cover; important issue). Get a big start on building your collection of The Confessional Presbyterian journal, one of the premier Reformed/Presbyterian print journals (now published under the auspices of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary) and own the soon to be out of print v5 (which will join v1, v8, v10 as OOP)! $350 retail; on sale postage paid for $250. That still sounds like a lot of change but each mostly fat and thick issue retails for $25 and 13 issues is an inch shy of a foot of pages. Custom artwork covers. You can browse issue by contents at the link and also there is a direct link to the partial set offer.
https://www.cpjournal.com/contents-by-issue/

https://www.cpjournal.com/product/set-of-back-issues-13/

Currently all issues except for v1 (2005), v8 (2012) and v10 (2014) remain in print and available for purchase. A few (less than 10) v10s are available as part of back issue partial set orders on an offsite offer. Contact us if interested. The Confessional Presbyterian 1 (2005)The Confessional Presb...

07/03/2023

There is a tally of low stock issues of The Confessional Presbyterian journal posted at the online store. V10 (Machen) is now out of print. V5 (Calvin) only 6 or less left. It is only available in the 13 set special offer containing Vols 2-7, 9, 11-16. See more pictures of past covers in first comment or at the cpjournal site.

Set of back issues in print (vols. 2-7, 9, 11-16) 13 issues (USA only). Retail $350. Sale. $250 postage paid. This offer is limited to 6 because of the number of volume 5s left (six or less left). Only one per customer.

16/02/2023

The tardy 2022 v18 issue of The Confessional Presbyterian journal is in transit and should be available for shipping to subscribers next week and for purchase. See the link to GPTS for the current and issue 17 and for back issues 2-7, 9-16 at the cpjournal.com site. See the promo linked below that contains the contents of the new issue and links to some back issue sets. Quantities limited due to vols. 10 and 5 nearly out of print. https://tinyurl.com/yck7vusu

v18 of The Confessional Presbyterian available