Themelios 25:3

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2000

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.

• Developments in Religious Education in England and Wales (Part 2): Methodology, Politics, Citizenship, by J. Philip Barnes & William K. Kay
• J. Gresham Machen, Inerrancy and Creedless Christianity, by D.G. Hart
• Interpreting the Bible Among the World Religions, by Christopher J.H. Wright
• Junction or Terminus?: Christianity in the West at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, by David Smith

Contents

Top Highlights

“But to reduce fundamentalism to a particular understanding of the Bible, as Machen’s contemporaries did and later historians have done, is to miss a much more basic point, namely, that conservatives like Machen believed liberalism compromised the Christian doctrine of redemption. That is why he believed liberalism constituted an entirely different religion. A faulty doctrine of Scripture, Machen also believed, could lead to other errors. Yet, he acknowledged repeatedly that a flawed understanding of biblical authority did not make one a liberal.” (Page 32)

“ Calvin says somewhere, zeal without knowledge is like a sword in the hand of a lunatic” (Page 1)

“The book’s thesis—that liberalism was an altogether different form of religion than Christianity—was provocative enough, but what added to Machen’s celebrity was the book’s apparent breach of etiquette. No one within mainstream Protestant circles had had the audacity to suggest that the American churches’ accomplishments were hurting the cause of Christ.” (Page 22)

“So instead of countering the epistemology of liberalism with a better one, or arguing for the propositional nature of truth, Machen played to his strength, namely the teaching of the New Testament. And here he attempted to show that the Bible did just the reverse of what liberalism claimed; theology preceded experience, not the other way around.” (Page 29)

“Religion itself, and even God, are made merely a means for the betterment of conditions upon this earth” (Page 25)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 25, No. 3, June 2000
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 25
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2000
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 130
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS25_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:38Z

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.