Gallery of issues - 2014- 2019
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 51, Fall 2014
Re-Connecting Christ and the Church: The Search for the Real Presence / Peter Schmiechen
Mercersburg Meets Bonhoeffer: Complementary or Incommensurable? / Lee C. Barrett
John Williamson Nevin and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Mystical Eucharistic Theologies in the Reformed Protestant and Roman Catholic Traditions / Jocelyn McKeon
Book Review: The German Roots of Nineteenth-Century American Theology by Annette Aubert / Linden DeBie
Number 52, Spring 2015
The Church Question, the Creed and Christian Unity: The Ecclesiology of John Williamson Nevin and the Ecumenical Task / Michael J. Stell
Article Review: "From Augustine of Hippo's Memory Systems to Our Modern Taxonomy in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience of Memory," by Jean-Christophe Cassel, Daniel Cassel, and Lilianne Manning / G. Andrew Mickley
Book Review: In Quest of a Vital Protestant Center by George Demetrion / F. Christopher Anderson
Number 53, Fall 2015
The Ecumenical Trajectory of the Mercersburg Movement / Theodore Louis Trost
Response to Dr. Theodore Trost "The Ecumenical Trajectory of the Mercersburg Movement" / Deborah Rahn Clemens
Book Review: A Change of Heart by Thomas Oden / Kenneth Aldrich
Book Review: The Incarnate Word edited by William Evans / F. Christopher Anderson
Number 54, Spring 2016
Practicing Eucharist in the Midst of Conflict / Joseph Hedden, Jr.
Sermon: So We Do Not Lose Heart / Linden DeBie
Book Review: Three Books That Changed Me in My Twenties / F. Christopher Anderson
Number 55, Fall 2016
Mercersburg Theology: Heir of Liberalism or Precursor of Neo-Orthodoxy? Or Both? / Lee C. Barrett
Singing Around Word, font, & Table: A Reformed Case Study / Paul Westermeyer
Book & Movie Reviews Harry Potter / Thomas D. Busteed
Benedict's Church Fathers Series / F. C. Anderson
Number 56, Spring 2017
An American Mediating Champion: Emmanuel Gerhart (1817-1904) / Annette G. Aubert
Angus Dei: The Cost of Discipleship / Thomas D. Busteed
A Simple Reformation Bibliography with a Focus on Martin Luther
Number 57, Fall 2017
Grace Alone: Interpreting and Revising a Great and Potentially Subversive Protestant Idea / Douglas F. Ottati
Mercersburg and the Reformation: Continuities, Discontinuities, and Lessons to Be Learned / William B. Evans
Christ the True Vine; A Sermon / Thomas D. Busteed
Book Review: Getting the Reformation Wrong: Correcting Some Misunderstandings James R. Payton, Jr.
Number 58, Spring 2018
Seeds of the Word in the Early Theology of John Williamson Nevin / Matthew Wright
Baptismal Language & Myers-Briggs Types / Thomas D. Busteed
Ascension Day Sermon: "We're all going, too" / W. Scott Axford
"To Whom It Does Concern: The Gift of the Ten commandments" / F. Christopher Anderson
Book Review George Hunsinger, The Eucharist and Ecumenism / Joseph Heddon, Jr.
Number 59, Fall 2017
An Eye for an Ear: John Williamson Nevin's Visual Metaphor for an Audible Church / Luke Sayers
Memories of the Civil Rights Movement in America Led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. / Herb Davis
Sermons: That They All May Be One. (John 17:9-16) / Peter Schmiechen
A Sermon on Isaiah 58:1-12 / Joseph Heddon
Book Review: A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live by Robert W. Jensen
Number 60, Spring 2019
Crash helmet Worship and the Flow of Christ's Life / Tom Lush
Reflections of The Rev. Dr. Gabriel Fackre: Doctor of the Church, Professor of Theology, Mercersburg Society Founder, Craigville Theological Colloquy Founder, Friend. / Herb Davis
Dissertation Review: William Rader's 1978 Dissertation. The Church and Racial Hostility / John Pinder