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.
“First, a person can be regenerated by the Holy Spirit and converted to Christ without having been baptised with the same Spirit.54 Second, Spirit-baptism for ML-J ‘is something that happens to us’55 but not automatically56 for it is ‘given’ and ‘it is the Lord who does it’. This point he establishes from the Acts narratives.57 A third and ‘still more important’58 principle for ML-J is that Spirit-baptism is ‘clear and unmistakable’, personally and corporately recognisable so is different in this respect from regeneration.” (Page 47)
“In fact, hearers ‘sense it at once … they are gripped, they become serious, they are convicted, they are moved, they are humbled. Some are convicted of sin … and begin to delight in the things of God’” (Page 45)
“Secondly, ML-J read widely, including many major theological volumes of varying theological shades” (Page 41)
“Firstly, he read privately the whole Bible each year and followed the practice until his death” (Page 41)
“The error of modernism was the construction of a false totality based on autonomous reasoning and humanistic utopianism that excluded divine revelation. The new error of postmodernism is the abandonment of metanarrative, the embracing of relativism, and the endorsement of cultural constructivism.” (Page 18)