Themelios 11:1

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1985

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.

• A Taproot of Radicalism, by Paul Helm
• The Date of Deuteronomy: Linch-pin of Old Testament Criticism Part 2, by Gordon J. Wenham
• The Hope of a New Age, the Kingdom of God in the New Testament, by I. Howard Marshall

Contents

Top Highlights

“According to the Evangelists Jesus announced both that the KG would come in the near future as the consummation of God’s purpose and also that it was already present in some way during his ministry as the fulfilment of God’s promises.” (Page 5)

“Christian hope is often thought of as being somehow based on the future. Such hope is in danger of remaining precisely that and nothing more—hope. For hope to have substance it must be rooted in and related to something else—a conviction about the character of God, such as, for example, that he keeps his promises or that he has done certain things in the past. The teaching of Jesus about the KG enshrines the conviction that God has already begun to act in the world and will complete what he has begun. Thus the validity of the hope depends upon the validity of the conviction that God is already at work in the world.” (Page 8)

“The writers of the Gospels regarded the KG as being the central theme of the teaching of Jesus.” (Page 5)

“The result of our investigation so far has been to show that KG did not simply function as a symbol for ‘God acting in sovereign power’ but rather that it referred to that realm which the Jews expected to be set up by the sovereign power of God in fulfilment of prophecy.” (Page 8)

“Thus the term Messiah is implicitly associated with the three terms that we have already considered: God sets up his rule (the KG) through a king anointed by the Spirit.” (Page 10)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 11, No. 1, September 1985
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 11
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1985
• 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:THEMELIOS11_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:54Z

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.