Volume 1 - 2007 - Closed - 80 Articles - 13 Published in Perspectives on Eternal Security: Biblical, Historical, and Philosophical Foreword by H. Wayne House, Edited by Kirk R. MacGregor and Kevaughn Mattis (Wipf and Stock, 2009).
Volume 2 - 2009 - Closed - 122 articles committed so far.
Volume 3 - 2011 - Open - 161 articles committed so far.
Guest and Complementary Articles Previously Published ~ Editorial Standards
Referencing TI Articles -
a few bibliographic forms could be
Wilburn, Roberta J. (Vol. 3,
2011) The Use of the Concept of New Identity .... , Testamentum Imperium – An
International Theological Journal (www.PreciousHeart.net/TI/2011).
Chicago & Turabian
Bibliography:
Wilburn, Roberta J. “The Use
of the Concept of New Identity ....”
Testamentum Imperium – An International Theological Journal (www.PreciousHeart.net/TI/2011;
Vol. 3, 2011).
Turabian Footnote:
Roberta J. Wilburn, “The Use
of the Concept of New Identity ....”
Testamentum Imperium – An International Theological Journal 3 (www.PreciousHeart.net/TI/2011;
2011): 1-26.
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