Hey Chris,
Can we look forward to this year's edition of the Confessional Presbyterian next month?
Any hints on what is coming?
It does actually get finished, at least we put a period to it.
I'm sorry we are running a few weeks behind last years schedule. There are some last minute submissions and one hold out that might change the contents somewhat, but those things that are fer sure as far as articles are below. There is a large review section as well as the regular features. I should do some promotion and renewals soon but I didn't want to do so until the "planned" contents were all confirmed and actually received. I also need to get Rich to help me get the website revamped for renewals; that may be another slight delay. We are probably looking at a July release this year because of the delays. CPj was blessed with an over abundance of material once again, and I am surprised to say we will exceed what I thought was a rather fat issue last year (256 pages) and may top out closer to 300 pages for 2007. One item that will appear and may change the paginations below is a bibliography of the works and some MS material by Alexander M'Leod, which concludes the mini three issue arc of three prominent New York Presbyterian Ministers at the opening of the 19th century who appear on the journal covers. You can see part 2 of the RPW series is again substantial though shorter than last year, about 61 pages. The WLC work also is rather large, as is the work on Brown and Baxter. A lot of good stuff and hard to pick favorites, but the work on Calvin and the Sabbath is probably the most important as it breaks with the traditional scholarship that puts a sharp divide between Calvin's theology of the Sabbath and his more Sabbatarian practice.
PB readers see the The Confessional Presbyterian website for details.
Thanks very much; the journal stands or fails on the contributors, and I'm very gratified by the interest in the forum CPj gives, and I have been very pleased with the quality of the submissions the last three years. And while the increasing "girth" is slightly problematic, it is a good problem; too much material is better than not enough for sure. Almost makes me think maybe we should split it into two issues per year; scary thought, and more $$ cost, and I wouldn't have time to do much else!
It probably is more the problems with getting a thicker production distributed than any production problem. The journal is essentially a sewn pb in a card stock binding, albeit a high end Mohwak stock (I use Mohawk Superfine Eggshell finish cover weight; I tried to get the same paper in a paper weight for the text but it was hugely way too expensive; the regular archival book paper is fine). It may be a matter of if the cover would hold up in use with the thicker journal, but I really don't know. With the sewing the journal should hold up internally though.
