Themelios 32:3

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2007

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.

• The Last Word: The Great Commission: Ecclesiology, by Robbie F. Castleman
• A Surrejoinder to Peter Enns, by G.K. Beale
• Come to the Father: Ignatius of Antioch and His Calling to be a Martyr, by Michael A.G. Haykin
• Origins of the Particular Baptists, by Gordon L. Belyea
• Response to Greg Beale, by Peter Enns

Contents

Top Highlights

“Jesus inaugurates this commissioning with the assurance that the burden, the mission, is his, not theirs.” (Page 69)

“It turns out that this passage may have got its summary label from a Dutch missionary Justinian von Welz (1621–88), but it was Hudson Taylor, nearly 200 years later, who popularized the use of ‘The Great Commission’. So, it seems like Welz or some other Post-Reformation missionary probably coined the term ‘The Great Commission’ and since that time, the passage has been the theme for countless mission talks and conferences.” (Page 68)

“A careful study, though, of Ignatius’ thinking about his own death reveals a man who rightly knows that Christian believing demands passionate engagement of the entire person, even to the point of physical death.” (Page 28)

“he longed to see unity at every level in the life of the local churches to which he was writing” (Page 27)

“he conceives of it as an imitation of the death of Christ” (Page 34)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 32, No. 3, May 2007
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 32
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 115
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS32_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:59Z

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.