Themelios 12:2

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1987

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.

• Recent Trends in Christology, by Gerald L. Bray
• Four Other Gospels: Review Article, by D.F. Wright
• Synoptic Studies: Some Recent Methodological Developments and Debates, by Craig L. Blomberg
• Some Scientific Issues Related to the Understanding of Genesis 1–3, by E.C. Lucas

Contents

Top Highlights

“Calvin’s doctrine of ‘common grace’ led him to conclude that all truth is God’s truth and that the light of truth still shines even in the heathen. Hence he says, ‘If we hold the Spirit of God to be the only source of truth, we will neither reject nor despise the truth, wherever it may reveal itself, lest we offend the Spirit of God’.³ One of the reasons why Blocher is hesitant to admit the use of scientific findings in exegesis is a desire to protect the authority of Scripture. However, the authority of Scripture is really the authority of God the Spirit who inspired it. Calvin is asserting, I think rightly, that all truth is inspired by the Spirit and has his authority. It does not compromise the authority of Scripture to recognize this.” (Page 47)

“‘Is it right to take the results of extra-biblical study into account when interpreting Scripture?” (Page 47)

“There is in science, as in any discipline, a core of well-established facts which can be relied upon with confidence when interpreting Scripture.” (Page 47)

“The biblical definition is clear, if not simple: Man is the one creature, male and female, that bears the image of God. Theologians are not fully agreed as to just what this means, but there seems general agreement that it implies the ability to relate to God in a personal way.³⁴ I do not see how this ability could leave any definitive fossil evidence, and so attempts to correlate Adam and Eve with any particular fossil hominids would seem fruitless.” (Page 49)

“He argues that the culture depicted for Adam and Eve and their sons is that of New Stone Age people, and that the geographical region where Eden is placed is in the area where this culture arose some 10,000 years ago. Pearce regards Adam and Eve as the result of a divinely engineered genetic change. As a result they stood in a line of physical continuity with their predecessors, but on the supra-physical level something new was introduced by divine fiat. This, of course, is not a scientifically testable hypothesis.” (Page 50)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 12, No. 2, January 1987
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 12
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1987
• 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:THEMELIOS12_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:58Z

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.