Themelios 9:1

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1983

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.

• Contextualisation in Theology, by Martin Goldsmith
• The Identity of the Holy Spirit: A Problem in Trinitarian Theology, by John Webster
• Recent Literature on the Fourth Gospel: Some Reflections, by D.A. C

Contents

Top Highlights

“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)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 9, No. 1, September 1983
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 9
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1983
• 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:THEMELIOS09_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:48Z

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.