Vol. 14, No. 2 will contain another fine piece by one of our regular contributors: Donald T. Williams obtained from his publisher permission to include a chapter from his just-published book on C. S. Lewis. Readers of the Global Journal will thus have the opportunity to revisit Lewis on the Holy Trinity—and will have no excuse for not obtaining the entire volume in which that essay originally appeared. Then, against the background of United Kingdom politics and BREXIT, Ross Maidment analyzes the pluses and the minuses of the late Margaret Thatcher’s individualistic, Methodistic take on Christian faith.

Vol. 14, No. 1 features your editor’s presentation at the historic Kloha-Montgomery debate at Concordia University Chicago on 15 October 2016. There Dr. Montgomery dealt with the implications of textual criticism for biblical inerrancy—and the dangers of Dr. Kloha’s approach to it. This issue will include the complete texts of Dr. Montgomery’s debate presentation and rebuttal to Dr. Kloha, together with a detailed review of the debate by the Rev’d Jack Cassione. Unfortunately, Dr. Kloha has refused to allow third parties to publish his presentation as a whole or in part, but we understand that his material can be obtained from the Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, where he teaches.

Our final issue of Vol. 13 will be wide-ranging—from the Palestine of Jesus’ day to the China of our time. Professor Emir Phillips will treat in detail the Samaritan factor—how the existence and beliefs of the Samaritans related to our Lord’s approach to evangelism. Then Jacob Buday will pose the question: “China: A Marxist Utopia?” Broaden your horizons with Global Journal 13:3!

Vol. 13, No. 2 of the Global Journal will feature two articles dealing with a much-the-same thorny apologetics issue: whether the world and the facts in it can be understand and employed per se in defense of classic Christian faith—or whether the meaning of the external world and its factual content lies with the presuppositional orientation of the individual seeker.  Hendrik van der Breggen argues that “It’s Not Interpretation All the Way Down: A Defense of Simple Seeing”; and John M. DePoe answers the question, “What’s (Not) Wrong with Evidentialism?”  If these gentlemen are on the wrong track, perhaps the Global Journal (and your wife) are really not there at all . . .

Readers of the Global Journal have special treats to look forward to in the next issue (Vol. 13, No. 1). Dr. Donald Williams, who has graced the pages of the Journal on other occasions, offers a superb treatment of Anselm and C. S. Lewis: “Anselm and Aslan: C. S. Lewis and the Ontological Argument.” This will be accompanied by an article of high relevance by Dr. Mary H. Korte, professor at Concordia University, Mequon, Wisconsin, and fellow of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and Human Rights: “Apologetics, Faith, and Science in Environmental Policy-Making.” Narnia and Mother Earth—a fine combination!

Our next issue (Vol. 12, No. 3) will feature a major defense of the Pauline authorship of I Timothy—a New Testament book dismissed as post-apostolic by mainline liberal biblical scholarship and (even more sadly) by not a few evangelical exegetes. That study—“Coherence and Authorship in I Timothy”—is the work of Dr. Ray Van Neste, Professor of Biblical Studies at Union University. Also in the next issue will be an article-length evaluation and critique of Myron Penner’s The End of Apologetics. Dr. John J. Johnson of Virginia Union University will show the fallacies in Penner’s dismissal of “rationalistic evidence” in the apologetic task and argue that Penner’s approach nonetheless has something useful to offer in making the case for Christianity.

Vol. 12, No. 2 will focus on the philosophy of history and historical method.  Some years ago, Romanian scholar Damian Liviu successfully defended a thesis at the distinguished Baptist theological faculty of the University of Bucharest on this editor’s approach to Christian historiography.  Liviu is now a faculty member in the History Department of that University, specializing in late antiquity and the medieval period.  He will offer readers of the Global Journal a detailed treatment of “The Historian’s Craft and Theology in the Thought of John Warwick Montgomery.”  And Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Illinois College, will critique Reza Aslan’s effort, in his recent book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, to turn the historical Jesus into a first-century political radical.

Vol. 11, No. 3 will offer readers two articles from a Lutheran perspective—but if you are (unfortunately) not Lutheran, worry not: their content will be entirely relevant to you as a committed Bible believer! Dr Uwe Siemon-Netto, an internationally renowned journalist with a doctorate in sociology under Peter Berger (A Rumor of Angels) will contrast the Reformation doctrine of vocation with today’s “Me” culture. And the Rev. Dr. John W. Kleinig will provide a wonderful description of “Luther on the Spiritual Life.”

It is most unusual to devote an entire issue of the Global Journal to a single contribution. But this is what will occur in Vol. 11, No. 2, owing to the overarching importance of the topic: a defense of biblical inerrancy by Oregon lawyer John J. Tollefsen, LL.M., Th.M.

Mr. Tollefsen, though not a professional theologian, has benefited from apologetic training at the Editor’s International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism and Human Rights, obtaining the Academy’s Diploma in Christian Apologetics and Fellow’s status. His extensive experience in litigation places him in a special position to argue his case over against those liberal evangelicals, especially in Great Britain and Canada, who are uncomfortable with the classic doctrine of a Scriptural revelation that does not err.

— John Warwick Montgomery