The vision was for an Australian journal that would give a scholarly exposition, defence and propagation of the Reformed faith.

The first editor was Arthur Allen, at that time minister of the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia in Geelong.

The original associate editors were John Aitken, T. C. Hammond, Marcus L. Loane, Allen McKillop, Neil Macleod and Alexander Yule.

Swanton retired in 1988, and the first issue of 1989 brought a new cover (the third cover design in the journal's history) and a new editor alongside Peterson, namely Allan Harman, Principal of the Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne.In 1996, upon Peterson's move to London to take up the Principalship of Oak Hill Theological College, the then Principal of Moore, Peter Jensen, became an editor alongside Harman.

[2] The Society also publishes Catechesis Unlike Reformed Theological Review, it is not peer-reviewed and seeks to be 'more accessible'.

The first editor is Ben Nelson, currently the New Testament lecturer at the Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia.