Themelios 7:3

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1982

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.

• Talking Points: Genesis and Evolution, by Nigel M. de S. Cameron
• Recent Work on Barth: A Survey of Literature Since 1975, by John Webster
• Towards a Mutual Understanding of Christian and Islamic Concepts of Revelation, by Ida Glaser
• Some Thoughts on the History of the New Testament Canon, by Theo Donner
• Weakness: Paul’s and Ours, by Richard J. Bauckham
• A New Tübingen School? E. Käsemann and His Commentary on Romans, by T.N. Wright

Contents

Top Highlights

“This weakness of Paul was the occasion for the power of God to be active and evident in his ministry: ‘We have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the transcendent power belongs to God and not to us’” (Page 4)

“Justification’ is therefore that action of God by which the believer is brought into this new position of faith/obedience.” (Page 10)

“To be controlled by the love of Christ means inevitably to reach the limits of one’s abilities and experience weakness.” (Page 6)

“The power of God evident in Paul’s ministry, not least in the transforming effect of the Gospel he preached, could be seen to be no merely human achievement of Paul’s but divine power which found its opportunity in Paul’s weakness. In his weakness Paul was obliged to trust in God and his converts to recognize God.” (Page 4)

“Understood in this sense, the first time our New Testament canon can be said to have emerged in complete form is in AD 367 in the Easter letter of Athanasius,² but it was not until some considerable time after that that this list was generally recognized in the church.” (Page 23)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 7, No. 3, 1982
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 7
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1982
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 32
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS07_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:44Z

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.