Themelios 17:2

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1992

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.

• Keith Ward: Taking Leave of God Incarnate: A Review Article, by Robert R. Cook
• A Survey of Historical Theology Articles 1989–90, by Tony Lane
• Pseudonymity and the New Testament, by Conrad Gempf
• New directions in Biblical Theology, by Charles H.H. Scobie
• Appendices in the New Testament, by Mikeal C. Parsons

Contents

Top Highlights

“Biblical theology thus ought to mean something like the ordered study of what the Bible has to say about God and his relations to the world and humankind.” (Page 4)

“An intermediate biblical theology will assume and accept the findings of the historical and literary approaches, but will seek to go beyond them and move from analysis to synthesis. It will still be basically concerned with ‘the horizon of the text’, and will attempt to provide an overview and interpretation of the shape and structure of the Bible as a whole. It will seek the unity and continuity of Scripture, but without sacrificing the richness of its diversity. It will focus not on exegetical details but on the broad interrelationships between the major themes of the Bible, and above all on the interrelationship between the Testaments.” (Page 6)

“Firstly, biblical theology is to be limited to the canonical books of the church’s Scripture” (Page 6)

“Thirdly, biblical theology is to be based on the Christian form of the canon.” (Page 6)

“An intermediate biblical theology is inevitably part of the interpretive process, and its presuppositions will be those of the interpretive community, including belief that the Bible conveys a divine revelation, that the Word of God in Scripture constitutes the norm of Christian faith and life, and that all the varied material of the OT and NT can in some way be related to the plan and purpose of the one God of the whole Bible. Such a biblical theology lies somewhere between what the Bible ‘meant’ and what it ‘means’.” (Page 6)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 17, No. 2, January/February 1992
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 17
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1992
• 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:THEMELIOS17_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:13Z

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.