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.
“Second, the Spirit is especially active in the mission of the church. In this, the Spirit’s work is not merely that of ensuring the subjective appropriation of what was accomplished by the Son once for all in the past. Rather, we have here to do with ‘a great new event in the series of God’s saving acts. He creates a world of his own’.28 In this he does not supplant Christ, but rather his work continues the work which God began in Christ, and derives its validity and effectiveness from Christ’s once-for-all accomplishment.” (Pages 6–7)
“Lampe’s fundamental contention is that ‘Spirit’ properly describes, not one of the three divine persons, but the whole activity of God in his relation to man: ‘the Spirit of God’, he writes, ‘is to be understood, not as referring to a divine hypostasis distinct from God the Father and God the Son or Word, but as indicating God himself as active towards and in his human creation.” (Page 5)
“God’s personality is God’s relatedness to himself.” (Page 6)
“God as Spirit within every man as human spirit’.5 ‘Spirit’ is virtually co-terminous between God and man, and so the church may not regard itself as the exclusive location of God’s Spirit; rather, it is the focal point of God’s personal presence to all creation.” (Page 5)
“Spirit’ in the New Testament is Christologically identified: it is located through Christ who is supremely endowed with the Spirit, who pours the Spirit upon the church after his exaltation, and to whom the Spirit testified.” (Page 5)