Themelios 8:1

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.

• Covenant, Treaty, and Prophecy, by Ernest C. Lucas
• Talking Points: Science Versus Religion, by Nigel N. de S. Cameron
• Dynamic Christology, by Graham Cheeseman
• The Emergence of the Doctrine of the Incarnation, by Leon Morris
• The Old Testament and Christian Faith: Jesus and the Old Testament in Matthew 1–5, Part 1, by John E. Goldingay

Contents

Top Highlights

“I accept Matthew’s intuitions about the Old Testament because I believe he was inspired; I could not ask you to accept mine on the same basis!” (Page 8)

“And you will understand the Christ event aright only if you see it as the climax to a story which reaches centuries back into pre-Christian times, the story of a relationship between the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Israelite people whom he chose to be his means of access to his world as a whole.” (Page 5)

“The converse is also true. As well as understanding Christ in the light of the Old Testament story, Matthew understands the Old Testament story in the light of the Christ event. Matthew’s claim is that the story from Abraham to David and from the exile on into the post-exilic period comes to its climax with the coming of Christ, and needs to be understood in the light of this denouement.” (Page 5)

“If the history of Israel is the background to the Christ event, we had better understand the actual history of Israel. But we are also interested in the way that history has been shaped as narrative by the writers of the Old Testament and of the New.” (Page 5)

“The evangelists are concerned with the real historical Jesus, but they tell his story in a schematized way, selecting and ordering material in order to make the points of central significance clear.” (Page 4)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 8, No. 1, September 1982
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 8
• 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:THEMELIOS08_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:45Z

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.