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Southeastern Theological Review SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW Vol. 6, No. 1 Summer 2015 Introduction to the Volume More than Just Torah: God’s Instruction STR Editor 1 in the Psalms David G. Firth 63 Revisiting Hab. 2:4 and its Place in the New Testament Eschatological Vision The Steward of God: Exploring the Role James A.E. Mulroney 3 and Function of Elders Jeremy Kimble 83 Introducing Christian Mission Today STR Interviews Dr. Michael Goheen 29 Book Reviews 113 Reading the Gospels Smithly: Thinking Upon and Loving the Gospels in Dialogue with James K.A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom and Imagining the Kingdom Jonathan T. Pennington 45 CONTENTS ARTICLES Introduction to the Volume ................................................................... 1 STR Editor Revisiting Hab. 2:4 and its Place in the New Testament Eschatological Vision ............................................................................... 3 James A.E. Mulroney Introducing Christian Mission Today .................................................29 STR Interviews Dr. Michael Goheen Reading the Gospels Smithly: Thinking Upon and Loving the Gospels in Dialogue with James K.A. Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom and Imagining the Kingdom .........................................................45 Jonathan T. Pennington More than Just Torah: God’s Instruction in the Psalms .................63 David G. Firth The Steward of God: Exploring the Role and Function of Elders ...................................................................................................83 Jeremy Kimble Book Reviews ....................................................................................... 113 BOOK REVIEWS Daniel I. Block. For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship ............................................................................................... 113 Joshua Moon Haddon W. Robinson. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages ............................................................... 115 Josh D. Chatraw Robert Kimball Shinkoskey. The American Kings: Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama ................ 117 James A. Patterson J.P. Moreland, Chad Meister, and Khaldoun Sweis, eds. Debating Christian Theism ...................................................................... 119 Allen Gehring Rainer Albertz, James D. Nogalski, and Jakob Wöhrle, eds. Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve: Methodological Foundations, Redactional Processes, Historical Insights ............................ 122 Tracy McKenzie SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW Kathryn Joyce. The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption .......................................................................... 124 Philip O. Hopkins Adonis Vidu. Atonement, Law, and Justice: The Cross in Historical and Cultural Contexts ............................................................................. 126 Matthew Y. Emerson Peter J. Morden. Communion with Christ and His People: The Spirituality of C. H. Spurgeon .......................................................... 129 Nathan A. Finn Tom Thatcher and Catrin H. Williams, eds. Engaging with C.H. Dodd on the Gospel of John: Sixty Years of Tradition and Interpretation ........................................................................................... 131 Francis M. Macatangay Aaron Menikoff. Politics and Piety: Baptist Social Reform in America, 1770-1860 .............................................................................. 134 Brent J. Aucoin Francis Watson. Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective ................... 136 Josh D. Chatraw J. V. Fesko. The Theology of the Westminster Standards: Historical Context and Theological Insights .............................................................. 138 Scott Culpepper Steve Wilkens and Don Thorsen, eds. Twelve Great Books that Changed the University, and Why Christians Should Care ...................... 141 Ken Keathley David R. Nienhuis and Robert W. Wall. Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John & Jude as Scripture: The Shaping & Shape of a Canonical Corpus .................................................................................... 142 Matthew Y. Emerson Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, Alexander Panayotov, eds. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Volume I ................................................................................................. 145 Christoph Stenschke STR 6/1 (Summer 2015) 1–2 Introduction to the Volume STR Editor Unlike many of the other “themed” editions of Southeastern Theo- logical Review, the current volume is occasional. We are delighted to have received high-quality essays, which have gone through the normal double-blind peer review process. The product, we hope, speaks for itself. As our readers will expect by now, this edition of STR is international and ecumenical in scope, and the essays coa- lesce around the major research interests that our journal aims to explore: theology (systematic, historical, moral, and applied), bibli- cal studies (Old and New Testaments and biblical theology), phi- losophy (philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and apolo- getics and culture), and missiology (missions, evangelism, public square). In our first essay, James Mulroney explores the Greek of Hab 2:2–5, its meaning, and how it has been received in New Testament texts. This is a close piece of exegetical reasoning which gives in- sight on the messianic nature of the reception of Hab. 2:4. Mulro- ney does not believe that the verse is inherently “messianic” in the Hebrew or Greek, but it is rightly received as such, fitting to New Testament to theology and Christian hermeneutics in the light of Jesus. Our second essay is an interview with Michael Goheen on the publication of his new volume on missiology: Introducing Christian Mission Today. This is a rich work and the interview exposes the motivations, aims and distinctives of the volume (without giving too much away!). This is, by all counts, a landmark text in the field of missiology and worth the effort of sustained reflection from its readers. An essay by Jonathan Pennington follows Goheen’s interview. Pennington explores the connections between James K.A. Smith’s research in the Cultural Liturgies series and his own research on the Gospels in the New Testament. His is a constructive critique of Smith’s work and a fresh take on research into the Gospels. This 2 SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW essay will, no doubt, serve as a window from which readers will see his future work on ethics and the Sermon on the Mount. David Firth draws attention to the place of God’s instruction in the Psalter. His work is detailed and helps to uncover the important, if underdeveloped, theme of God’s instruction for both the Psalter and biblical scholarship on the Psalter. He provides solid evidence that the theme of God’s instruction is not only present, but signifi- cant in the Psalter, and Firth goes further to outline particular func- tions that the theme serves in the theology of the Psalter. Firth shows that Torah in the Psalter is not a pharisaic legalism to the law. Rather, God’s instruction in the Psalter is good, formative, and engenders delight for God. Following Firth’s essay is that of Jeremy Kimble, who turns his attention to a topic that is exegetically contentious and pastorally relevant. His question centers upon how one understands the func- tion of “elders” or “pastors” in the New Testament. Kimble argues that the notion of “steward” needs to be brought to bear in the discussion, based on the New Testament evidence. He concludes: Since pastors are to give an account to their Master, they must be sure to work diligently in proclaiming God’s Word concerning the good news of Jesus Christ and in leading the congregation in applying that proclaimed Word and walking in the ways of God. With this kind of faithful pastoral minis- try God will be well pleased. So Kimble’s essay is at once deeply rooted in a close analysis of New Testament evidence, but it simultaneously addresses the place of pastors and pastoral ministry in the local church for today. The essays are followed, in normal order, by an international team of reviewers. It is our hope that the essays and reviews will be of benefit and enrichment to our readers. STR 6/1 (Summer 2015) 3–28 Revisiting Hab. 2:4 and its Place in the New Testament Eschatological Vision James A.E. Mulroney University of Edinburgh I. It is widely agreed that the Apostle Paul quoted Ambakoum1 2:4b in Rom 1:17b because it was a messianic text that supported the core thesis of his epistle: the righteous (one) shall live by faith, and not by works of the law. It has been argued that this central article—to live by faith—is then unpacked throughout the rest of the epistle as the author explains what this means in light of the coming of Christ. The apostle’s citation is often handled as if it were a proof-text, being lifted out of Ambakoum to suit the pur- pose of the epistle. Support for the messianic background comes from studies by Dodd and Strobel, which have asserted that, in the former, Paul was working out of a messianic interpretative tradition of the passage,2 and in the latter, the translator of Ambakoum in- troduced a messianic reference at Amb 2:3a.3 1 Ambakoum is here given as the title of the Old Greek (OG) transla- tion of the Hebrew book entitled Habakkuk by tradition. In this study, the abbreviation LXX refers to the OG translation of
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