Themelios 29:1

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.

• Living in a World Where Life is Cheap: The Relevance of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Sixth Commandment, by Melvin Tinker
• The Last and Next Christendom: Implications for Interpreting the Bible, by Robert W. Yarbrough
• On Barth’s Denial of Universalism, by Oliver Crisp
• A Free Lunch at the End of the Universe? by Paul Wells
• Interview With Manuel Ortiz, by Carl Trueman
• The Last Word, by Robbie F. Castleman

Contents

Top Highlights

“However as Packer says, penal substitution does not offer an explication of the how but only of the what of atonement. Rationalism in the formulation of penal substitution and the temptation to play the Socinians on their own ground must be avoided. Mystery surrounds atonement.” (Page 43)

“There is a sense in which the suffering of Christ is exemplary as in liberalism, the cross presents a victory as G. Aulen proposed, God is justified as P.T. Forsyth argued, the judge is judged as in K. Barth, or in which Christ has paid a debt. All of these can fit in with penal substitution, but to reduce the cross to one of the other of them is to lose the essence of the work of Christ.” (Page 49)

“In the field of hermeneutic adequation it is stated that owing to culture shift, talk of penal substitution is no longer intelligible. People today are not worried about sin but about suffering. It is hermeneutically impracticable in the present climate to speak of suffering for sin rather than suffering related to destiny.” (Page 44)

“The paradoxical nature of penal substitution is the conjoining, in one act, of expressions of justice and love, wrath and approbation, judgement and grace, death and life.” (Page 43)

“Sinfulness is not removed subjectively during this life. Guilt, however, is removed as condemnation and judgement by the cross.” (Page 47)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 29, No. 1, Autumn 2003
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 29
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2003
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 132
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS29_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:48Z

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.