Themelios 2:1
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.
- Why Were the Montanists Condemned? by David F. Wright
- Paul Prays For the Church, by John R.W. Stott
- Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, by I. Howard Marshall
Top Highlights
“‘I bow my knees before the Father,’ he says. Now the normal posture for prayer among Jews was standing. In Jesus’ parable of the pharisee and the publican both men ‘stood to pray’ (Lk. 18:11, 13). So kneeling was unusual; it indicated an exceptional degree of earnestness, as when Jesus knelt in the garden of Gethsemane, falling on his face to the ground. Scripture lays down no rule about the posture we should adopt when praying. It is possible to pray kneeling, standing, sitting, walking and even lying. But I think we may agree with William Hendriksen that ‘the slouching position of the body while one is supposed to be praying is an abomination to the Lord’!” (Page 2)
“And so he proceeded to do a package tour of the world of early second century Christianity in order to discover whether the rise of what came to be called heresy was always preceded by orthodox teaching from which it had deviated. A close study of the rise of the church in Edessa and Alexandria suggested to him that in the beginning so-called unorthodox groups were predominant; what was later regarded as orthodoxy was represented at best by small groups, so that from the very beginning so-called heretical and orthodox forms of the faith existed side by side.” (Page 5)
“To have Christ dwelling in us and the Spirit dwelling in us are the same thing (see Romans 8:9–11). Indeed, it is precisely by the Spirit that Christ dwells in the believer’s heart, and it is strength which he gives us when he dwells there.” (Page 3)
“Bauer thus concluded that what later came to be regarded as orthodoxy was only one of several competing systems of Christian belief, with no closer links to any original, so-called ‘apostolic Christianity’ than its rivals, and that it owed its victory in the competition more to what we might call political influences than to its inherent merits.” (Page 6)
- Title: Themelios 2:1
- General Editor: D. A. Carson
- Consulting Editor: Carl R. Trueman
- Managing Editor: Charles Anderson
- Administrator: Andrew David Naselli
- Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
- Publication Date: 1976
- Pages: 33