Themelios 29:2

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2004

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.

• Should Evangelicals Participate in the “Third Quest for the Historical Jesus”? by Michael Bird
• Gender and God-Talk: Can We Call God “Mother” by Richard S. Briggs
• Children, Covenant and the Church by David F. Wright
• The Blurring of Time Distinctions in Roman Catholicism, by Leonardo De Chirico
• How Shall We Sing The Psalms: A Review Article, by Jamie Grant
• The Last Word: The Self-Emptying Life, by Robbie F. Castleman

Contents

Top Highlights

“The issue is not set to disappear any time soon; and the passions which run deep on both side of the debate are unlikely to abate over time. Indeed for many in the church, it is without doubt the Big issue of our time.” (Page 1)

“Theology without history degenerates into docetism, whilst history without theology is reduced to an inane and prosaic catalogue of biographical facts.” (Page 13)

“The purpose of such studies was twofold: (i) To destroy the orthodox picture of Jesus; and (ii) To erect another view of Jesus that was free from theological influence, that would be acceptable to the modern mind (i.e. nothing miraculous) and be a worthy moral example. This quest for the historical Jesus was brought to an abrupt end by Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), the German NT scholar and missionary doctor, in his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus.³ Schweitzer pointed out that all the various attempts to construct Jesus historically ended up doing little other than projecting their own aspirations onto Jesus.” (Page 6)

“Christianity, by contrast, stands or falls with its claim to historical character. Christianity appeals to the theatre of history as the domain of God’s activity, and thus it is to historical study that we must go.” (Page 10)

“It can be seriously argued that the baptism of babies was the single most significant constitutive element of church order that the Reformers preserved without explicit biblical warrant.” (Page 30)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 29, No. 2, Spring 2004
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 29
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 105
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS29_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:49Z

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.