Themelios 6:1

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1980

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.

• Godliness and Good Learning: Cranfield’s Romans, by Tom Wright
• Old Testament Prophets’ Self-Understanding of Their Prophecy, by Douglas Stuart
• Tensions in Calvin’s Idea of Predestination, by Wing-hung Lam
• Spirit and Life: Some Reflections on Johannine Theology, by David Wenham

Contents

Top Highlights

“To say that predestination is conditioned by foreknowledge is to introduce an indirect human factor, outside the divine intellect, that will destroy the absoluteness of the sovereign will.” (Page 16)

“Man’s free will should decide between good and evil. And predestination depends on divine knowledge of man’s future response.” (Page 16)

“1. The prophets considered themselves vehicles through whom God himself spoke” (Page 10)

“Calvin’s understanding, foreknowledge does not mean prior in time but transcendent in time. God operates in the realm of eternity, which is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different from the temporal continuum. He embraces the entire human history in his eternal present. This simultaneous knowledge implies that God does not make a decision at some past moment and then, after an interval, brings it into action. Only human activity goes this way. God does not only conceive events through ideas but ‘he truly looks upon them and discerns them as things placed before him’.⁷ He is no passive observer of events to occur.” (Page 16)

“We could conclude that eternal life in John is the Father and the Son ‘making their home’ with the believer—through the Spirit. Receiving the Spirit and receiving eternal life are thus to be seen not as two separate blessings, but in a very real sense as the same blessing.” (Page 5)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 6, No. 1, September 1980
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 6
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1980
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 30
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS06_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:39Z

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.