Themelios: Volume 41, No. 2, August 2016

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2016

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.

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: The Woman from Kentucky by D.A. Carson
• Off the Record: The Echo Chamber of Idolatry
• Numbering and Being Glad in Our Days: A Meditation on Psalm 90
• Toward Theological Theology: Tracing the Methodological Principles of John Webster
• The Impassible God Who “Cried”
• The Problem of Repentance and Relapse as a Unifying Theme in the Book of the Twelve
• The Septuagint and Biblical Theology
• John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift and the New Perspective on Paul
• Book Reviews:
  • Wrestling with the Violence of God: Soundings in the Old Testament
  • The Message of Joshua: Promise and People
  • The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible
  • The T&T Clark Hebrew Primer
  • A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible
  • South Asia Bible Commentary: A One-Volume Commentary on the Whole Bible
  • Interpreting the Prophets: Reading, Understanding and Preaching from the Worlds of the Prophets
  • Scripture and Cosmology: Reading the Bible Between the Ancient World and Modern Science
  • The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
  • Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? A Biblical Theology of the Book of Leviticus
  • Human Rights in Deuteronomy: With Special Focus on Slave Laws

Top Highlights

“In all its diversity—and it is, of course, quite diverse!—the new perspective is fundamentally about re-reading Paul as a first-century ‘converted’ Jew engaged in dialogue and dispute with covenantal nomism.” (Page 281)

“The result is a shift in the axis of Paul’s teaching from the vertical—sinful human beings and a just God—to the horizontal—the selfish Jewish people and estranged Gentiles. Paul attacks the law and its works mainly because it creates a barrier to Gentile inclusion; justification is a doctrine Paul deploys to offer Gentiles entrance into the people of God; Jesus—at least for Wright—is more the ‘second Israel,’ fulfilling its role as the ‘light the Gentiles,’ than the ‘second Adam,’ whose obedience becomes the basis of salvation for those who believe.” (Page 281)

“According to the doctrine of divine impassibility, God is invulnerable to suffering. Nothing can act upon him, but he is in no way passive.” (Page 240)

“One of his key claims is that the idea of a ‘pure gift’—a gift given freely and without any expectation of return—is a modern notion. In the Greco-Roman world of Paul’s day, gift-giving took place within a nexus of reciprocal relations. Gifts cemented existing relationships and were given in expectation of some kind of return.” (Page 283)

“Whether Barclay’s claim that Dunn and Wright underplay the role of grace in Paul is justified or not, it can be said, I think, that they tend to limit its significance by tying it so much to Paul’s concern about overcoming ethnocentrism.” (Page 287)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 41, No. 2, August 2016
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 41
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 197
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS41_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:44:25Z

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.