Themelios: Volume 42, No. 3, December 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: Should Pastors Today Still Care about the Reformation?” by D.A. Carson
• “Strange Times: I'm (Not) Getting Sentimental over You” by Daniel Strange
• “Tayloring Christian Politics in Our Secular Age” by Bruce Riley Ashford
• “A Paragon of Faith? Doubting Abraham” by Andrew Chinpeng Ho
• “Covenant, Creation and Children: A Response to David Gibson’s Critique of Credobaptism” by Graham Shearer
• “The Helpfulness of the Lesser Known Work: Isaac Watts on the Passions” by Graham Beynon
• “Pastoral Pensees: #Charlottesville: Some Gospel Thinking on White Supremacy” by Eric C. Redmond, Walter J. Redmond, Jr., and Charis A.M. Redmond
• Book Reviews

Top Highlights

“It has been said that if you want good theology grounded in robust exegesis and expository preaching, turn to Reformed theology, but if you want spirituality, turn to Catholicism.” (Page 437)

“What a relief, then, to turn to the warmest of the writings of the Reformers, and discover afresh the pursuit of God and his righteousness well-grounded in holy Scripture. That is why Luther’s letter to his barber remains such a classic: it is full of godly application of the gospel to ordinary Christians, building up a conception of spirituality that is not reserved for the elite of the elect but for all brothers and sisters in Christ.” (Page 437)

“The church should recognize that its political ‘power’ is not found primarily in activism, but in its proclamation of the gospel—a proclamation that challenges the cultus publicus of any nation, including our American Empire. By proclaiming that Jesus is Lord (and, by implication, that Caesar is not), it nourishes our political identity and foreshadows the day when the King will return to install a one-party system and reconstitute the world under a reign of justice and peace.” (Page 448)

“The question is this: is the church mixed by divinely ordained constitution, as the Abrahamic church was, or because the application of its new constitution is fallible?” (Page 470)

“How can we make the Christian gospel once again plausible and imaginable in our fragilized and cross-pressured era” (Page 447)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 42, No. 3, December 2017
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 42
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Pages: 159
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS42_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:44:29Z

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.