Themelios: Volume 42, No. 2, August 2017

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2017

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: On Knowing When to Resign” by D.A. Carson
• “Strange Times: The ‘Only’ Problem” by Daniel Strange
• “Confession of a Reformed Philosopher: Why I Am a Compatibilist about Determinism and Moral Responsibility” by John C. Wingard Jr.
• “Natural Selection and an Epistemology of Evil: An Incompatible Pair” by J. Daniel McDonald
• “Wendell Berry's ‘Risk’: In the Middle of Gay Marriage?” by Jacob Shatzer
• “The Preeminence of Knowledge in John Calvin’s Doctrine of Conversion and Its Influence Upon His Ministry in Geneva” by Obbie Tyler Todd
• “Redeeming Edwards’s Doctrine of Hell: An ‘Edwardsean’ Account” by Christopher Woznicki
• “A Missiology of Excluded Middles: An Analysis of the T4T Scheme for Evangelism and Discipleship” by George A. Terry
• Book Reviews

Top Highlights

“The witness of Scripture throughout seems to be (a) that God has from eternity foreordained, and throughout history has and continues to providentially govern (in an active, not passive, way), everything that occurs¹⁰—not just some things, but everything, including the acts of human beings—and at the same time (b) that human beings are (quite often) morally responsible for their acts.” (Pages 267–268)

“The point is, however, that the T4T approach portrays evangelism as a methodologically unvarying endeavor and insufficiently recognizes the importance for contextual diversification.” (Page 342)

“The problem with this approach, according to Keller, is that ‘until people’s minds and worldviews have been prepared, they hear you say ‘sin’ and ‘grace’ and even ‘God’ in terms in their own categories. By going too quickly … you guarantee that they will misunderstand what you are saying.’” (Page 344)

“This paper will focus on four of these: broad and indiscriminate seed sowing, the gospel as the filter for finding receptivity, obedience-based discipleship, and the ministry of the Spirit as Teacher.” (Page 337)

“Since the ethnicities define the scope of God for the establishment of his kingdom, evangelism should be anything but indiscriminate.” (Page 340)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 42, No. 2, August 2017
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 42
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Pages: 182
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS42_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:44:28Z

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.