The Hanover Review

The Hanover Review (formerly Theologia Viatorum): The Journal of the London Lyceum is a peer-reviewed journal for analytic, Baptist, and/or confessional theology that is published on an (at least) annual basis by the London Lyceum. The journal seeks to promote serious thinking for a serious church by retrieving the wisdom from analytic philosophy, the Baptist tradition, and classical Protestantism as articulated in the confessional documents of the Reformed tradition. The journal seeks to promote the Reformed catholic tradition by confessing what is held in common by the Second London Confession of Faith, the Orthodox Creed, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Three Forms of Unity, and the Anglican Formularies. The journal publishes content that is consistent with the Nicene and Apostles’ Creed and the orthodox Protestant confessional tradition.

The Hanover Review is primarily a special issue journal but general topic essays are included as part of each issue.

Accepted articles include the following: articles dealing with analytic or systematic theology, Baptist theology, confessional or historical theology, or any theological or philosophical article advancing serious Christian thinking.

The journal also prioritizes translations or transcriptions of existing quality literature that is not published in English or not available in an accessible format with the addition of a brief introduction as special essays.

The current acceptance rate of essays for the journal is 44%.

SUBMISSIONS

We follow a double-blind peer-review process and seek to provide initial decisions on submissions within 3 months of submission.

Essays should typically be between 3,000 and 8,000 words excluding footnotes but exceptions will be made for works of exceptional value.

Please note that as an academic journal submissions should be original research of the highest quality. Standard literature reviews and summaries of older debates that are common to PhD seminars are not acceptable quality.

Formatting should be done in Chicago style. Several notes to emphasize:

Please use headings throughout
Footnotes instead of in-text citations should be used
Do not use Ibid

Recent Issues

The Hanover Review: The Journal of the London Lyceum is available in both print and digital format. Both options are available below.

Volume 1.1: The Liberty of Conscience
Volume 2.1: The Theology of John Gill
Volume 3.1: The Reformation as Renewal Symposium
Volume 3.2: The Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Forthcoming late 2024)
Volume 4.1 The Nicene Creed and Nicene Faith (Open Call for Papers)

Volume 3, Issue 1: The Reformation as Renewal Symposium

More details on the symposium are available here. This symposium features online-only versions (linked individually below) alongside print and digital PDF versions in our journal The Hanover Review available for purchase (linked above). Only the official typeset journal versions should be cited in academic work.

Articles

An Accidental Reformation?, by Richard Cross
Duns Scotus, Classical Theist: A Vindication, by Thomas M. Ward
On Matthew Barrett’s “The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church”, by Mickey L. Mattox
“Reformation as Renewal:” Recatholicizing the Reformers by Manipulating Their Message?, by Peter Opitz
Prolegomena to Any Future Account of Aquinas’s Augustinianism: A Response to Matthew Barrett, by Daniel W. Houck
The Bishop of Rome hath no Jurisdiction in this Realm of England: The English Reformation and Foreign Jurisdiction, by Michael J. Lynch
The Prophetic Role of the Protestant Reformation, by Jordan J. Ballor
Contextualizing “Renewal:” An Examination of Matthew Barrett’s Historical Methodology, by Jonathan Baddley
The Reception of Late Medieval Scholastic Thought in Early Modern Reformed Theology, Andreas J. Beck

Volume 2, Issue 1: The Theology of John Gill

Articles

“The First Care of Government”: John Gill on the Magistrate and the Church, Ian Hugh Clary
Open and Closed: Presenting John Gill’s Doctrine of Communion, by Brandon C. Jones
Gill’s Kingdom Taxonomy: Christ, the Church, and the History of the World, by Morgan Byrd
Defining the Faith: Contrasting Philip Doddridge & John Gill’s Approaches to the Credal Tradition, by Caleb Hawkins

General Articles, Special Essays, and Notes

“Think and Smoke Tobacco”: Eighteenth-Century Christian Perspectives on Tobacco Use, by Garrett M. Walden

Volume 1, Issue 1: The Liberty of Conscience

Articles

Robert Robinson’s Liberty: Toleration, Conscience, and Ecclesiology, by Garrett M. Walden
An Exposition of the Doctrine of Christian Liberty as found in Chapter 21 of the Second London Confession of Faith, by James M. Renihan
Thomas Helwys, Roger Williams, and Pre-Enlightenment Arguments for Religious Liberty, by Jesse Owens
God Alone is Lord of the Conscience, Joseph Dunne
Spurgeon, Temperance, and Christian Liberty, by Geoff Chang
Liberty of Conscience Requires Guardrails, by J. Ryan Davidson

Special Essay

American Slavery: A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms, Edited, introduced, and transcribed by Jordan Senecal

Book Reviews

The Making of Biblical Womanhood, Beth Allison Barr, Reviewed by Jordan Steffaniak
The Failure of Natural Theology, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Reviewed by Jordan Steffaniak
Contemplating God with the Great Tradition, Craig A. Carter, Reviewed by Jordan Steffaniak
The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society, Joe Boot, Reviewed by Tom Musseti