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Ordained Servant a Journal for Church Officers a Publication of the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church OrdainedServant A Journal for Church Officers VOLUME 27, 2018 Ordained Servant A Journal for Church Officers A publication of the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ISSN 1525-3503 Volume 27 2018 Editor: Gregory Edward Reynolds • 827 Chestnut Street • Manchester, NH 03104 Telephone: 603-668-3069 • Electronic mail: [email protected] Website: www.opc.org/os.html Ordained Servant is published monthly online (except for combined issues June/July and August/September) (E-ISSN 1931-7115, online edition), and printed annually (ISSN: 1525-3503) after the end of each calendar year, beginning with volume 15 (2006) published in 2007. Ordained Servant was published quarterly in print from 1992 through 2005. All 53 issues are available in our online archives. The editorial board is the Subcommittee on Serial Publications of the Committee on Christian Education. Subscriptions: Copies of the annual printed edition of Ordained Servant are sent to each ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, each organized congregation, and each designated mission work, and are paid for by the Committee. Ordained elders, deacons, and licentiates of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church may receive copies gratis upon request. Ordained Servant is also available to anyone in the United States and Canada who wishes to subscribe by remitting $10.00 per year to: Ordained Servant, The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 607 N. Easton Rd., Bldg. E, Willow Grove, PA 19090-2539. Checks should be made out to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, designated for Ordained Servant in the memo line. Institutional subscribers in the US and Canada please remit $15.00 per year. Overseas individual and institutional subscribers please remit $20.00 per year. All remit- tances should be made payable in US funds. Subscriptions, both paid and gratis, may also be received through our website on the “Publications” page under “Resources” on the top right of the OPC.org home page. Submissions: Chosen submissions will be published on the web and possibly chosen for the annual print edition. Please consult “Submissions, Style Guide, and Citations” on our website. Copyright Information: All material in this periodical is subject to US and international copyright laws and may not be reproduced without prior written approval. Please refer to “Submissions, Style Guide, and Citations” on our website once you have received permission. Interested parties are invited to obtain permission to reproduce mate- rial found in this publication by writing to the editor. © Copyright 2018 by the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. All rights reserved. OrdainedServant A JOURNAL FOR CHURCH OFFICERS CONTENTS 5 From the Editor Gospel,” Matthew Cserhati 46 “The Reformed Faith and the Challenge of ServantTribute Islam,” John R. Muether 52 “A Place among the Stars,” Gregory E. 6 “Harold Leonard Dorman: Spokesman for Reynolds Almighty God,” Gregory E. Reynolds ServantThoughts ServantLiving EDITORIALS 54 “Why Reformed and Evangelical Christians Should Not Marry Roman Catholics,” Andy 8 “The Voice of the Good Shepherd: A Sermon Wilson on Romans 10:14–21” 58 “Flesh and Thorn: Understanding Addiction 13 “Lessons in Leadership from Nehemiah” as Disease,” James H. Berry 63 “Leisure as a Christian Calling,” Leland ServantTruth Ryken 19 “The Theology of Frankenstein: Deism vs. Biblical Theism,” James Gidley ServantHistory 69 “Martin Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation ServantWord (April 1518): Remembering Another Five- Hundredth Anniversary,” Andy Wilson 26 “What Is Faithful Preaching?” Alan D. Strange ServantClassics ServantChurch 75 “Healing for the Bruised Reed from the Heavenly Doctor Sibbes,” Gregory E. 31 “Barriers to Ecumenicity,” Alan D. Strange Reynolds ServantReading ServantMission BOOK REVIEWS 38 “The Growth of the Church in Acts: 77 Reformed Catholicity, by Michael Allen and Descriptive and Eschatological,” Stephen D. Scott R. Swain, D. Scott Meadows Doe 78 The Vanishing American Adult, by Ben Sasse, ServantWitness John R. Muether 45 “How to Reach Roman Catholics with the 79 The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee, by R. 113 I Shall Not Die, But Live: Facing Death with David Cox, Darryl G. Hart Gospel Hope, by Douglas Taylor, Gordon H. 81 They Say We Are Infidels, by Mindy Belz, Cook, Jr. Bryan D. Estelle ServantReading 83 The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, by REVIEW ARTICLES Darío Fernández-Morera, Bryan D. Estelle 84 The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, edited 115 “(Dis)Engaging Our Reformed Fathers (?)” by Harry S. Stout, Jeffrey C. Waddington review of A History of Western Philosophy and Theology by John Frame, John V. Fesko 86 How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth, by Christopher J. H. Wright, 120 “Kids These Days” review of iGen: Why Stephen J. Tracey Today’s Super-connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy— 88 John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood, and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern by Jean M. Twenge, Gregory E. Reynolds America, by Jeffrey S. McDonald, John R. Muether 124 “The Drama of Preaching,” review of The Drama of Preaching: Participating with God 90 Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological in the History of Redemption, by Eric Brian Terms, 2 ed., by Richard A. Muller, Alan D. Watkins, Alan D. Strange Strange 128 “How to Think Irenically,” review of How to 91 Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, Shaped Religion and State in Modern by Alan Jacobs, Gregory E. Reynolds America, by Ronit Y. Stahl, Darryl G. Hart 131 “Karl Barth: Friends or Foe?” review of 93 The Whole Christ: Why the Marrow Karl Barth: An Introductory Biography for Controversy Still Matters, by Sinclair Evangelicals, by Mark Galli, Ryan Glomsrud Ferguson, Mark Paterson 135 “Vos the Systematician,” review of Reformed 95 Anthony Tuckney (1599–1670), by Joungchun Dogmatics, by Geerhardus Vos, trans. and ed. Cho, Ryan M. McGraw Richard B. Gaffin Jr., et al., 5 vols., Danny E. 97 Divine Will and Human Choice, by Richard Olinger A. Muller, David C. Noe 140 “Roman Catholicism, Marriage, and the 99 Doctrine in Development: Johannes Piscator Sexual Revolution,” review of To Change and Debates over Christ’s Active Obedience, the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of by Heber Carlos de Campos Jr., Ryan M. Catholicism by Ross Douthat, Darryl G. Hart McGraw 144 “Are You Woke?” review of Disruptive 101 Prayers of the Bible, by Gordon J. Keddie, Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age, Candyce D. Magee by Alan Noble, Gregory E. Reynolds 103 Choosing the Good Portion, edited by Patricia 148 “Frankenstein at 200 and Our Creations: A E. Clawson and Diane L. Olinger, Linda Cautionary Tale,” review of Frankenstein or, Porter Foh the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley, 105 Remembrance, Communion, and Hope, by J. edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Todd Billings, Ryan M. McGraw Jason Scott Robert, Gregory E. Reynolds 107 Theoretical-Practical Theology, vol. 1, by 153 “A New Multi-Volume Pastoral Theology,” Petrus van Mastricht, Ryan M. McGraw review of Pastoral Theology: The Man of God, His Calling and Godly Life, vol. 1, by Albert 109 Christ and the Law: Antinomianism at N. Martin, Ryan M. McGraw the Westminster Assembly, by Whitney G. Gamble, Ryan M. McGraw 111 Sanctification, by Michael Allen, Ryan M. McGraw From the Editor his is the thirteenth annual printed edition of Ordained Servant as Twe enter our twenty-eighth year of publication in 2019. I am dedicating this issue to a beloved minister in the presbytery (New York and New England) of which I have been a part since 1978. Harold Dorman, who went to be with his Lord December 27, 2017, was a kind of Shamgar among ministers—easy to overlook, not well known outside of his presbytery and local church. He was a quiet and unassuming man who served his Lord and his Lord’s church with humble faithfulness as a pastor for fifty-six years since his ordination in 1958. He is, thus, a sterling example to us all—“Harold Leonard Dor- man: Spokesman for Almighty God.” A new feature in 2018 is Servant Classics, in which brief reviews of classics of Christian literature, which many have heard about but never read, will be presented. In 2018 I began this feature with Rich- ard Sibbes’s The Bruised Reed. In 2019 David Noe, who is a professor of classics at Calvin College, and a member of the Committee for the Historian of the OPC, will provide original translations of classical theology beginning with Theodore Beza on the Trinity. The cover picture is of the Congregational Church in Exeter. In 1638 the Reverend John Wheel- wright had been exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for preaching what the Puritans called anti- nomianism, emphasizing God’s grace without a call to obedience to God’s law in response. Forced north, he led a small band of about 175 followers into the New Hampshire wilderness and settled on the banks of the Squamscott River. The community that emerged there became Exeter, New Hampshire, and in those days every New England town had to have a church in order to receive a charter. It became the first capital of the state. The current building dates from 1798 and is the fifth meeting house. Once again I would like to thank general secretary Danny Olinger, Alan Strange, and the subcommit- tee of Darryl Hart, Sid Dyer, and Wallace King for their continued support, encouragement, and counsel. I would also like to thank the many people who make the regular online edition possible: Diane Olinger, Linda Foh, Stephen Pribble, and Andrew Moody, and the many fine writers without whom there would be no journal. Finally, I want to thank Ann Hart for her meticulous editorial work, and Judith Dinsmore for her excellent final proofing and formatting of this printed volume.
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