Themelios 9:3

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1984

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.

• Why Study Philosophy of Religion? by Mark Geldard
• ‘Only the Suffering God can Help’: Divine Passibility in Modern Theology, by Richard J. Bauckham
• Building the Bridge from Academic Theology to Christian Mission, by Clark H. Pinnock

Contents

Top Highlights

“the Father also, in his love for the Son, must be understood to suffer in the event of the cross” (Page 11)

“was not trying to write a definitive systematic theology for all time.” (Page 5)

“The first of these is that charismatic gifts continued only till the church was established and out of danger. They therefore decreased throughout the first few centuries and halted in the fourth or fifth (a theory which participants in the charismatic movement would take issue with). The other view centres particularly upon miracles and gifts of revelation (prophecy, tongues, the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge) and states that these were only operative in connection with the apostles.” (Page 20)

“The idea of divine impassibility (apatheia) was a Greek philosophical inheritance in early Christian theology. The great hellenistic Jewish theologian Philo had already prepared the way for this by making apatheia a prominent feature of his understanding of the God of Israel,²⁰ and virtually all the Christian Fathers took it for granted, viewing with suspicion any theological tendency which might threaten the essential impassibility of the divine nature.” (Page 7)

“Classical Pentecostalism has always pointed to speaking in tongues as the ‘initial evidence’ that an individual has received baptism in the Spirit. However, many participants in the charismatic movement have found this emphasis upon tongues disturbing and do not agree that every person baptized in the Spirit is able to speak in tongues nor that they should expect to do so.” (Page 17)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 9, No. 3, April, 1984
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 9
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1984
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 31
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS09_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:50Z

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.