Existing Resources

During the research conducted for this project I could not locate bibliographies, annotated or
otherwise on Theology. What I could locate were journals that contained annotated reviews of
books. Since these quarterly published works would act as a guide I have chosen to compare and
contrast three journals that contain book reviews.

Bibliotheca Sacrathe oldest journal of the three examined, published by Dallas

Theological Seminary. The first print edition came out in 1934 and is available in the archives
online. There is a cost to subscribe to and to access the journal, but overall it is a nominal fee and
the articles contained are written by some of the great theologians of the twentieth and twenty
first century. The book reviews can shed relevant light on the books that are published
throughout the year and an index is published that covers the most relevant books and topics a
decade at a time.

The Masters Seminary Journal-The MSJ has been published by the Masters Seminary
since 1994 and can be accessed at https://www.tms.edu/msj/ . The archive of articles and book
reviews can be very helpful although the perspective is that of the Evangelicals and not baptistic.
The topics of the articles cover a wide gamut of interests and therefore can usually find
readership regardless of convention. The book reviews are current and pertinent to the issues
being covered in theology today.

Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary Journalthe online version is accessible at

http://www.dbts.edu/journal/ and allows the user to access the articles of the issue as well as the
section for book reviews that are present in almost every issue. The articles cover topics on
Dispensationalism, Covenentalism, the relation of women and men and their roles in the church
to creation and the impact of inerrancy on belief. The book reviews cover the recently released
commentaries on books of the Bible, subjects such as Pneumatology and the rise of Christianity
in the Ancient Near East. Some book reviews are so exhaustive as to go chapter by chapter
through the work. This journal is published once a year.
Comparison and Contrast

Of the three journals, Bib Sac has the longest history, stretching back even in the archives online
to the first published edition in 1934. There is a fee for accessing Bib Sac but when the archives
are included in the price, the pastor that leans toward the teaching of Dallas Theological
Seminary would find the articles, indices and book reviews an invaluable resource for their study
if there is no theological nearby that subscribes to the journal. It is fee based, but there are
numerous perks to having the subscription. The MSJ is available online and for free in the
archives but it is more Evangelical in its scope and philosophy. If this is not a concern for the
library or the reader then it too is an invaluable resource for pastors, theologians and teachers.
The Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary Journal is the weakest of the three in that it is only
published yearly and many of the book reviews do not address current issues in Theology but
many heavily argued issues of the past forty years.