Themelios: vol. 36, no. 3, November 2011

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2011

Overview

Themelios is an international evangelical theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The new editorial team, led by D. A. Carson, seeks to preserve representation, in both essayists and reviewers, from both sides of the Atlantic. Each issue contains articles on important theological themes, as well as book reviews and discussion from the most important evangelical voices of our time.

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Key Features

• Offers an editorial by D. A. Carson
• Discusses books written by an assortment of authors and theologians
• Provides articles by contributors from numerous denominations and professions

Contents

• “Editorial: Spiritual Disciplines” by D. A. Carson
• “Jonathan Edwards: A Missionary?” by Jonathan Gibson
• “That All May Honor the Son: Holding Out for a Deeper Christocentrism” by Andrew Moody
• “An Evaluation of the 2011 Edition of the New International Version” by Rodney J. Decker
• “Pastoral Pensées: Friends: The One with Jesus, Martha, and Mary; An Answer to Kierkegaard” by Melvin Tinker

Top Highlights

“The principle involved in the NIV11, as is the case with a number of other evangelical translations (e.g., ESV, HCSB, NET, NLT), is that wording in the donor language that is not gender specific should not become gender specific in the receptor language. The issue involved is not if some form of inclusive language should be used, but what specific types of language are legitimate and how extensive they should be.” (Page 431)

“‘Spiritual’ and ‘spirituality’ have become notoriously fuzzy words” (Page 377)

“In 1 John 2:2, the RSV translates ἱλασμός as ‘expiation’ rather than the traditional ‘propitiation.’ Granted, propitiation will not win awards for clarity these days, it is still my opinion that using expiation calls for a ‘wart rating’ at this point. Why? Because the two words have different meanings: propitiation means that God is satisfied that Christ’s sacrifice has paid the penalty for sin. On the other hand, expiation means that sin has been forgiven. The focus is very different: one focuses on God, the other on sin. Although both are true statements, expiation does not accurately represent what John said; the ἱλασμός word group is God-focused.” (Page 439)

“God is essential to expressing and experiencing such a love; here he refers to God as ‘the middle term.’ Whereas ‘worldly wisdom’ holds love to be a relation between persons, ‘Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between: a person-God-a person, that is, that God is the middle term.’³⁶ Augustine expresses a similar thought: ‘No friends are true friends unless you, my God, bind them fast to one another through that love which is sown in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.’” (Pages 464–465)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 36, no. 3, November 2011
• Editor: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2011

About The Gospel Coalition

Brian J. Tabb (PhD, London Theological Seminary) is academic dean at Bethlehem College & Seminary and an elder of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also serves as managing editor for Themelios, published by the Gospel Coalition, and is the author of Suffering in Ancient Worldview.

D.A. Carson is a research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978. Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also served for two years as academic dean. He has served as an assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom. Carson received a bachelor of science in chemistry from McGill University, the master of divinity from Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto, and the doctor of philosophy in New Testament from the University of Cambridge. Carson is an active guest lecturer in academic and church settings around the world. He holds membership on the Council for the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Carson has also written many books that have garnered international acclaim, including his award-winning title The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism.

Daniel Strange is academic vice president and lecturer in culture, religion, and public theology at Oak Hill College, London. He is the author or coauthor of several other books, including The Possibility of Salvation Among the Unevangelised: An Analysis of Inclusivism in Recent Evangelical Theology.