Foundations

Foundations is an international journal of evangelical theology which has been published by Affinity since 1978. Its aim is to cover contemporary theological issues through original articles and reviews, taking in exegesis, biblical theology, church history and apologetics, and to indicate their relevance to pastoral ministry. Its particular focus is the theology of evangelical churches which are committed to biblical truth and evangelical ecumenism.

The Editor of Foundations is Dr Donald John MacLean. He is supported by a group of Associate Editors. Each article is independently peer-reviewed to maintain the quality and orthodoxy of Foundations.

Issue 86 – Summer 2024

Editorial

Review Article: Neo-Calvinism: A Theological Introduction

Abraham Kuyper: Inspiration, Revelation, and Scripture

John Owen and Relating to God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

John Wesley and Aldersgate

Slavery, the Slave Trade and Christians’ Theology – Part 1

Missionary – What’s in a Word? A Critical Discussion of a Disputed Term

Book Review: Christianity and Science

Book Review: The Holy Spirit

Book Review: Providing for Pastors: How to Give Time, Energy, and Money to Support the Work of Pastors

Book Review: This Earthly Life Matters: The Promise of Arnold A. van Ruler for Ecotheology

Issue 85 – Winter 2023

Editorial – Issue 85

Thinking through Difference and Desire: A Critical Engagement with of Sarah Coakley’s God, Sexuality and the Self

Evangelicals, let’s be a little bit more Reformed Catholic

The Westminster Divines and the Alexandrian Codex

“In Death Itself He Was Living”: Hugh Martin’s Atonement Theology

A Red Letter Day In Bourton On The Water, August 1765

Book review: Personality & Worldview

Book review: Buddhism, Islam and Religious Pluralism in South and Southeast Asia

Book review: Classical Theism: New Essays on the Metaphysics of God

Issue 84 – Summer 2023

Editorial – Issue 84

Glories that Form and Deform Identity – The Roads Ahead

Divine Light and Holy Love: Genuine Conversion in the Works of Jonathan Edwards

Sanctification and Consistent Godly Living

Pastoring the Twenty-First Century Church

Faithfulness Amidst Trial and Persecution

Review Article: Complementarism

Book review: Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction

Issue 83 – Winter 2022

Editorial – Issue 83

Muslims, Christians, And God

Equipping twenty-first century missionaries for cross-cultural ministry

A missiological assessment of the Insider Movement

Do Christians meet for worship?

John Davidson and the General Assembly of 1596

Book Review: When Christians Face Persecution

Book Review: Strange New World

Issue 82 – Affinity

Issue 82 Article 5 – Some Reflections On Comments By Stephen Clark – Affinity

Issue 82 Article 6 – Reply to Professor Robert Letham’s Response – Affinity

Issue 82 – Book Review 1 – Affinity

Issue 82 Article 4 – Herman Dooyeweerd’s Christian Philosophy – Affinity

Issue 82 – Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 82 Article 2 – The “Same God” Issue And The Communication Of The Gospel To Muslims – Affinity

Issue 82 – Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 82 Editorial – Affinity

Issue 82 – Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 82 Article 3 – The Other Genevan: Rousseau And The Rise Of The Modern Mind – Affinity

Issue 82 Article 1 – To Be Or Not To Be – Affinity

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Issue 81 – Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 81 – Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 81 – Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 81 – Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 81 – Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 81 Editorial – Affinity

Issue 81 – Book Review 1 – Affinity

Issue 81 Article 5 – The Business of Heaven – Affinity

Issue 81 Article 1 – The Hopes and Fears of all the Years: The Future of the Church in this Present – Affinity

Issue 81 Article 2 – “With Me in Paradise” – Questions About the So-Called “Intermediate State” – Affinity

Issue 81 Article 3 – The End is Not the Beginning… In Fact, Not Even the End – Affinity

Issue 80 – Affinity

Issue 80 Article 1 – “It’s All About Me!” Ministry In A Therapeutic Culture – Affinity

Issue 80 Article 2 – The Christian and the Civil Magistrate – Affinity

Issue 80 Article 3 – Covid-19 and Creation: Megaphones, Mystery and Lament – Affinity

Issue 80 Article 4 – Distinctives of the Rural Context for Christian Mission – Affinity

Issue 80 Article 5 – The Union of 1929 and What Came After – Affinity

Issue 80 Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 80 Book Review 1 – Affinity

Issue 80 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 80 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 80 Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 80 Editorial – Affinity

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Issue 79 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 79 Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 79 Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 79 Book Review 7 – Affinity

Issue 79 Editorial – Affinity

Issue 79 Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 79 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 79 Article 1 – Pleasing the Impassible God – Affinity

Issue 79 Article 2 – Complementarianism, Quo Vadis? – Affinity

Issue 79 Article 3 – The Apologetics and Theology of Cornelius Van Til – Affinity

Issue 79 Article 4 – Abraham Kuyper: Cultural Transformer – Affinity

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Issue 78 Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 78 Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 78 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 78 Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 78 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 78 Book Review 1 – Affinity

Issue 78 Article 6 – The Use of English in Cross-cultural Mission: Observations from Africa – Affinity

Issue 78 Article 5 – John Owen’s Taxonomy of the Covenants: Was He a Dichotomist or a Trichotomist? – Affinity

Issue 78 Article 3 – The Need for Systematic Theology in Theological Education – Affinity

Issue 78 Article 4 – John Murray, Biblical Theology and Systematic-Theological Method – Affinity

Issue 78 Article 1 – God is Our Refuge and Strength – Affinity

Issue 77 – Affinity

Issue 77 Article 2 – Contending In The Perpetual Battle: Jude And The Constant Need To Fight Valiant – Affinity

Issue 77 Article 3 – The use of Satire in the Book of Isaiah and in Christian Ministry – Affinity

Issue 77 Article 4 – Is the Filioque Clause Biblical? – Affinity

Issue 77 Article 5 – The Same God:Did Paul Claim the Athenians Worshipped Yahweh? – Affinity

Issue 77 Article 6 – Knocking on Sinners’ Doors? Revelation 3:20, Ecclesiology and the Gospel Offer – Affinity

Issue 77 – Book Reviews – Affinity

Issue 77 Editorial – Affinity

Issue 76 – Affinity

Issue 76 Editorial – Affinity

Issue 76 Gathered Worship in the New Testament – Affinity

Issue 76 Worship Today: Maintaining Continuity with the Past and Across the World – Affinity

Issue 76 What is Sweeter to us is Clearer: The Aesthetics of Worship – Affinity

Issue 76 Review Article – Affinity

Issue 76 Tuning the Heart: A Historical Survey of the Affections in Corporate Worship – Affinity

Issue 76 Worship Today: Contemporary Expression of Worship in One’s Own Culture(s) – Affinity

Issue 76 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 76 Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 76 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 76 Book Review 1 – Affinity

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Issue 75 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 75 Book Review 1 – Affinity

Issue 75 Assumptions Without Reflection – Affinity

Issue 75 Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 75 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 75 Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 75 Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 75 Book Review 7 – Affinity

Issue 75 Context is Key – Affinity

Issue 75 This Way of Living – Affinity

Issue 75 Who Led the Israelites Out of Egypt – Affinity

Issue 74 – Affinity

Issue 74 Editorial – Affinity

Issue 74 Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 74 Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 74 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 74 Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 74 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 74 Article 1 Crisis, Cursing and the Christian Reading Imprecatory Psalms in the Twenty-First – Affinity

Issue 74 Article 2 The Book of Job as a Theology of Isolation – Affinity

Issue 74 Article 3 Culture, Class and Ethnicity: A Theological Exploration – Affinity

Issue 74 Article 4 Overcoming Listlessness: Learning from Evagrius of Pontus – Affinity

Issue 74 Article 5 Review Article The Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge – Affinity

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Issue 73 Book Review 5 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 4 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 3 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 2 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 11 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 10 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 6 – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Review 7 – Affinity

Issue 73 Review Article: Cross-Currents in Muslim Ministry – Affinity

Issue 73 Nature, Person, and Will – Affinity

Issue 73 Book Reviews – Affinity

Issue 72 – Affinity

Issue 72 Article 5 – Chronological Creationism – Affinity

Issue 72 Article 1 – The Nature and Necessity of Church-Planting Movements – Affinity

Issue 72 Article 2 – Defending Specificity on Doctrinal Distinctives for a Church Planting Network – Affinity

Issue 72 Article 3 – Building a Church-Planting Movement in a Traditional Denomination – Affinity

Issue 72 Article 4 – Multi-Site Church – Affinity

Issue 72 – Book Reviews – Affinity

Issue 72 – Editorial – Affinity

Issue 71 – Affinity

Issue 71 – Book Reviews – Affinity

Issue 71 Article 5 – A Reply to Stephen Clark – Affinity

Issue 71 Article 4 – Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between the Word of God and the Holy Spirit – Affinity

Issue 71 Article 3 – The Age of the Earth: A Plea for Geo-Chronological Non-Dogmatism – Affinity

Issue 71 Article 2 – A Theology of the Created World: Neglected Biblical Perspectives – Affinity

Issue 71 Article 1 – Dialogues Concerning Cultural Engagement (Part Two) – Affinity

Issue 71 – Editorial – Affinity

Associate Editors:

Bob Fyall
Cornhill Training Course (Scotland)

Jamie A. Grant
Vice-Principal (Academic), Highland Theological College

David McKay
Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland

Dan Strange
Director, Crosslands Forum

Ted Turnau
Anglo-American University, Prague & Union School of Theology

Keith Walker
International Strategic Development Director, SIM International

Paul Wells
Emeritus Professor, Faculté Jean Calvin, Aix-en-Provence, France

Garry Williams
The John Owen Centre, London Seminary

Peter Williams
Tyndale House, Cambridge

Alistair Wilson
Edinburgh Theological Seminary

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