Gallery of Issues - 1997-2002
The New Mercersburg Review is the journal of the Mercersburg Society. It began publication with issue 1, Autumn 1985, and continues to the present. This periodical is also available in print at the Lancaster Theological Seminary Library.
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Number 21, Spring 1997
Editorial Introduction / R. Howard Paine
Evangelical Catholic Worship: Past, Present, Future / Jeffrey L. Roth
I Belong to My Faithful Savior Jesus Christ: A Mercersburg Life Meaning System / Thomas Lush
A Feminist Perspective on Mercersburg Theology: What Do Women Want, Anyway? They Already Have Equal Rights, Don't They? / Kim Louise Blocher
Schwenkfeld's Eucharistic Piety and Ecumenical Concern / Peter C. Erb
An Intensely Personal, Impressionistic, Idiosyncratic Meditation on Baptism (A Work in Progress) / Richard T. Schellhase
Number 22, Autumn 1997
Editorial Introduction / R. Howard Paine
A Berkshire Historical Sketch / Richard L. Floyd
What Has P. T. Forsythe to Do with Mercersburg? / Alan P. F. Sell
Nevin, Finney, and Catholic Evangelicalism / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe
Mercersburg and Church Order: Missed Opportunities in the Formation of the United Church of Christ / Benjamin Griffin
Move Over David: A Sermon / Vernon H. Baum
A Sermon / Llewellyn Parsons Smith
An Examination of Dr. Nevin's Ideas of Christian Unity / Timothy P. Dugan
Number 23, Spring 1998
Editorial Introduction / R. Howard Paine
Exposing, Experiencing, and Explaining America: Philip Schaff's Progress from The Principle of Protestantism to America / Theodore Trost, III
Mercersburg and Mutualities of Affirmation and Admonition / Gabriel Fackre
A Lutheran Defense of Quackery: Benjamin Kurtz Responds to Mercersbug / Stephen R. Herr
A Genetic Issue: Pittsburg or Mercersburg? / Joseph Bassett
A Review of The Worth of a Child by Thomas H. Murray / James E. Chase
Liturgical Revival in Methodism: The Order of St. Luke in the 1950's / David R. Bains
Number 24, Autumn 1998
Editorial Introduction / R. Howard Paine
The Anxious Bench or Let God Be God / Paul Westermeyer
The Mystical and Moral Presence: Unity and Renewal in the 21st Century / John H. Thomas
Ecumenical Vision: A Roman Catholic Response and Discussion / John F. Hotchkin
A Time For New Wine: A Sermon / Kim L. Blocher
A Sermon for the Eucharist / Kurt S. Strause
The Influence of Mercersburg Theology on The New Century Hymnal / Judith A. Meier
Number 25, Spring 1999
Editorial Introduction / R. Howard Paine
Christianity and Other Religions / John B. Payne
Table Talk: A Conversation with Deborah Rahn Clemens about the Eucharist / Deborah Rahn Clemens
The Real Presence and its Implications for Ministry and Discipleship / Jeffrey L. Roth
The Real Presence and its Implications for Ministry and Discipleship / Stephen P. Verkouw
The Sacrament in the Mercersburg Theology / Theodore L. Trost, Jr.
Number 26, Autumn 1999
Editorial Introduction / R. Howard Paine
Some Philosophical Factors in the Nevin/Hodge Debate on the Lord's Supper / E. David Willis
A Method to Their Madness: The Hermeneutics of the Nevin/Hodge Debate / Peter J. Wallace
The Lord's Supper in Puritanism from Calvin to Jonathan Edwards / Thomas Schafer
A Sermon for Morning Prayer / W. Scott Axford
Invocation of the Holy Spirit: A Sermon / R. Howard Paine
Number 27, Autumn 2000
Mercersburg Now / William DiPuccio
The New, New Hermeneutic is the Old, Old Hermeneutic / F. Chris Anderson
The Good News of Groaning / Thomas Lush
The Corporate Confession of Sin / Philip Allen LaFollette
The Protestant Principle and the Catholic Substance / Stephen R. Graham
A Word to the Ripe Scholar / Judith A. Meier
Number 28, Spring 2001
The Confessional Heritage of the United Church of Christ / Gabriel Fackre
John W. Nevin: The Pietist / Sam Hamstra, Jr.
The New Testament Concept of Baptism / R. Howard Paine
On the Necessary Distinction between Morality and Ethics / Richard E. Wentz
Apologizing to Mohammed / Martha Kriebel
Number 29, Autumn 2001
A Mysterious Link: The Eucharistic Liturgy of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, Mercersburg and Beyond / Greg Mast
"Who Can Explore His Strange Design?" Mystery in the Theology of the Wesleys / Charles Yrigoyen, Jr.
Nevin on the Mystery of Faith / John B. Payne
A Sermon / Norman J. Kansfield
Inimitable Faith: A Sermon / Renee House
Number 30, Spring 2002
John W. Nevin: The Pietist, Part II / Sam Hamstra Jr.
Listening for the Image of God Around the Table of a Hospital Committee / Joseph Bassett
Should Baptized but Unconfirmed Children Be Admitted to the Lord's Supper? / Judith A. Meier
Why Bother with Mercersburg When Praise Songs Bring Them In? / Benjamin Griffin
What Irked Dr. Berg? / Linden DeBie