Themelios 17:3

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.

• A Stalemate of Genders? Some Hermeneutical Reflections, by C. Powell
• The Value of Women and World View, by E. Jensen
• The Mystery of Male and Female: Biblical and Trinitarian Models, by R.P. Stevens
• Feminist Theology as Critique and Renewal of Theology, by A. Hauge
• The Hermeneutics of Feminism, by R. Letham

Contents

Top Highlights

“Certainly Christ does have power to rule his church, but it is nowhere suggested that power is the point of comparison in this context. In fact, in a passage speaking so much of submission and love, power and ruling are distinctly out of place. The analogies drawn from Christ are all in the area of giving up and sacrifice, not of power or rule. Headship is giving, not ruling.” (Page 18)

“Does this not in fact violate the generally accepted hermeneutical principle that unclear texts should be interpreted in the light of clear texts? Payne rightly notes, ‘In no other verse of Scripture is it stated that women are not to be in ‘authority’ over men. It is precarious indeed to deny that women should ever be in a position of authority over men based on the disputed meaning of the only occurrence of this word anywhere in the Bible.” (Page 17)

“However, James Barr has shown that ‘the etymology of a word is not a statement about its meaning but about its history;” (Page 17)

“But the emphasis and highly innovative point Paul is making is not that women should not teach, but that they should learn!” (Page 18)

“Paul is making a connection between understanding or knowledge and teaching. It is the purpose of his epistle to expose false teaching and encourage the truth. So, ‘Eve had been deceived and had sought to teach Adam something which she herself did not understand’.²⁸ In the context of false teaching, or while women were uneducated, they were not to teach.” (Page 18)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 17, No. 3, April/May 1992
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• 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_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:14Z

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.