Themelios 28:2

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2003

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.

• Evil, Evangelism and Ecclesiastes, by Melvin Tinker
• The Transfiguration of Jesus Christ (Part Two): Approaching Sonship, by Stephen Williams
• Theology of Preaching in Martin Luther, by Dennis Ngien
• The Church and the City, by Manuel Ortiz
• The Last Word, by Robbie F. Castleman

Contents

Top Highlights

“What Ecclesiastes does is strike out in a slightly different direction at the folly that life ‘under the sun’ can be fully ‘taped’ leaving no loose ends. It does this by propounding the view that even wisdom has its limits, that so-called ‘keys to success’ are notoriously ill-fitting. There is an underlying thought, sometimes made explicit, that we would be wise to accept the unease that life is messy and has an irreducibly mysterious element at its core.” (Pages 10–11)

“John Chapman, the Australian evangelist, makes the important apologetic point that this is a world suitable for sinners. The discordant nature of reality, its frustrations, its agonies and endless disappointments—the very stuff of Ecclesiastes—reminds us that all is not well between ourselves and our Maker.” (Page 13)

“Luther says that ‘one must see the word of the preacher as God’s Word’.^{5” (Page 28)}

“If nature is all there is, he argued, then whatever is, is right” (Page 5)

“Moses can stand for the law, Elijah for the prophets. Moses was the lawgiver and Jesus was accused of transgressing the law; Elijah was the great opponent of idolatry and Jesus’ enemies were troubled by the excessively close proximity to God in which he placed himself. Then we can read of Moses as informator (teacher) and Elijah as reformator (reformer); of one opening the (Red) sea, the other the (barren) heavens.” (Page 21)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 28, No. 2, Spring 2003
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 28
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2003
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 124
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS28_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:46Z

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.