Foundations

Issue 89 – Spring 2026

Editorial

Malcom Maclean

Malcolm Maclean is a retired minister of the Free Church of Scotland, having pastored churches in the Western Isles and in Inverness (Greyfriars). He has written three books: The Lord’s Supper, Royal Company (on the Song of Solomon) and The Life of Abraham. Currently, he is the editor of Foundations. He lives in Inverness.

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The Recovery of Adoption: A Brief Progress Report

Tim Trumper

Tim J. R. Trumper (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is President of From His Fullness Ministries (fromhisfullness.com) and Lead Pastor of Grace Church of Utah (PCA), Layton, Utah (graceutah.org/). He is the author of Adoption: A Road to Retrieval (Grand Rapids: From His Fullness Ministries, 2022); and When History Teaches Us Nothing: The Recent Reformed Sonship Debate in Context, first published 2008, second ed. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2022).

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Adoption in the Old Testament

David McKay

Recently retired from congregational ministry in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, David McKay has served as Professor of Systematic Theology, Ethics and Apologetics at the Reformed Theological College, Belfast, for thirty years He is the author of An Ecclesiastical Republic (1997), The Bond of Love (2001), A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Humanity (2021), Last Things (2023) and A Spiritual Checkup (2024).

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Preaching a Comfortable Doctrine: the Doctrine of Adoption

Dan Peters

Dan Peters is the minister of Newcastle Reformed Evangelical Church in Newcastle upon Tyne, and Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Seminary UK. He is the author of Distinct Communion: The Believer’s Relations with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Originally from North Yorkshire, Dan is married with three children.

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A Family Dispute About Adoption

Malcom Maclean

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Book Review: Philip H. Eveson – Baptised with Heavenly Power

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas has been Minister of Borras Park Evangelical Church, Wrexham, since 2003. He also currently serves as General Secretary of the Evangelical Movement of Wales.

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Book Review: Tim J.R. Trumper – Adoption: A Road to Retrieval

Thomas Davis

Thomas is the Acting Course Organiser for Systematic Theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary.

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About Foundations

Foundations is an international journal of evangelical theology published in the United Kingdom. Its aim is to cover contemporary theological issues by articles and reviews, taking in exegesis, biblical theology, church history and apologetics, and to indicate their relevance to pastoral ministry. Its particular focus is the theology of evangelical churches which are committed to biblical truth and evangelical ecumenism. It has been published by Affinity (formerly The British Evangelical Council) from its inception as a print journal. It became a digital journal in April 2011.

Editor:

Malcom Maclean
Malcolm Maclean is a retired minister of the Free Church of Scotland, having pastored churches in the Western Isles and in Inverness (Greyfriars). He has written three books: The Lord’s Supper, Royal Company (on the Song of Solomon) and The Life of Abraham. Currently, he is the editor of Foundations. He lives in Inverness.

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