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Full Theological Journal 5.1
You may leaf through the full version of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal below or download your PDF copy now. Each of the individual articles have been posted on this site. You may subscribe to receive new MBTJ articles by email as they are released.
“Every Baptist a Missionary” Johann G. Oncken and Disciple-Making in Europe
David Saxon 1 Disciples of Jesus Christ are acutely conscious of their inability to replicate themselves. It is not a natural process. A miracle is necessary every time another person embraces Christ in repentant faith and sets out on the path of following Christ....
School Choice and Intellectual Freedom
Michael Dean 1 Education policy is like any other policy. The only question that really matters is, “Who gets the money?” Because whoever has the money will decide where and how children will be educated. “School choice” is the policy that parents—not the...
A Brief Evaluation of Lutheran Theology
Fred Moritz1 The Reformation was characterized by at least two distinct movements, the Magisterial Reformation and the Radical Reformation. At the outset it is important to understand the nature of the two groups. Magisterial Reformation The Magisterial Reformers are...
Theological Misinterpretations of the Confessing Church
Matthew Spurlock1 Before the Third Reich obtained full political power in Germany, there was an effort to unify the Protestant churches, mostly Lutheran, into one church, merged with the ideologies of the Nazi state. Though there was much support from a large portion...
5.1 – Book Review
Rolland McCune, A Systematic Theology of Biblical Christianity (3 vols). Detroit: Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, 2009–2010. 1341 pages. Reviewed by Larry Oats. Rolland McCune was professor of Systematic Theology at the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary in...
Full Theological Journal – Volume 4.2
You may leaf through the full version of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal below or download your PDF copy now. Each of the individual articles have been posted on this site. You may subscribe to receive new MBTJ articles by email as they are released.
A Theology of Separation
Larry Oats1 In the last issue of the Maranatha Baptist Theological Journal I wrote an article on the Theology of Fellowship. This current article is the flipside of the earlier article. A theology of separation needs to be part of a theology of fellowship. This...
A Brief Evaluation of Roman Catholic Theology
Fred Moritz1 Bible believers should study Roman Catholic theology for several reasons. Numerically, Rome claims a significant Catholic population. The Pontifical Yearbook states that Catholicism claimed 1 billion, 214 million communicants around the world in 2013.2 In...
The Wizardry of OSS: Life in the Land of Technological Promise
Jonathan Rehfeldt1 Though Biblical Christianity has not been without its able defenders in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, its influence has seemed to decline in the West. This is largely because of negative portrayals through the secular media, bombastic...