Themelios: Volume 44, No. 3, December 2019
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.
- Discusses books written by an assortment of authors and theologians
- Provides articles by contributors from numerous denominations and professions
- “Editorial: But That’s Just Your Interpretation!,” by D.A. Carson
- “Strange Times: Remembering a Principal’s Principles,” by Daniel Strange
- “Cultural Marxism: Imaginary Conspiracy or Revolutionary Reality?,” by Robert S. Smith
- “Adam and Sin as the Bane of Evolution? A Review of Finding Ourselves After Darwin,” by Hans Madueme
- “Do Formal Equivalent Translations Reflect a Higher View of Plenary, Verbal Inspiration?,” by William D. Mounce
- “Power for Prayer through the Psalms: Cassiodorus’s Interpretation of the Honey of Souls,” by Matthew Swale
- “The Oxford Movement and Evangelicalism: Initial Encounters,” by Kenneth J. Stewart
- “Athens without a Statue to the Unknown God,” by Kyle Beshears
- “Inerrancy Is Not a Strong or Classical Foundationalism,” by Mark Boone
- “The God Who Reveals: A Response to J.L. Schellenberg’s Hiddenness Argument,” by Daniel Wiley
- Book Reviews
Top Highlights
“One of the chief goals of Lukács’s short-lived campaign was the destruction of Judeo-Christian sexual ethics and the weakening the bourgeois family. To this end, he introduced a radical sex education program into all schools. As a result, ‘Hungarian children learned the subtle nuances of free love, sexual intercourse, and the archaic nature of middle-class family codes, the obsolete nature of monogamy, and the irrelevance of organized religion, which deprived man of pleasure.’61 Women were called to flaunt traditional sexual mores and wives to rebel against their husbands.” (Page 448)
“It simply refers to a twentieth century development in Marxist thought that came to view Western culture as a key source of human oppression. As such, Cultural Marxism is nothing more than the application of Marxist theory to culture.” (Page 437)
“First, it is deceptive, and even idolatrous, to set up omniscience as the necessary criterion for ‘certain’ or ‘sure’ knowledge.” (Page 426)
“‘If there exists a God who is always open to a personal relationship with each finite person, then no finite person is ever nonresistantly in a state of nonbelief in relation to the proposition that God exists.’” (Page 553)
“From one point of view, Gramsci’s neo-Marxism is a significant improvement on classical Marxism, in that it advocates what Gramsci called a ‘war of position’ instead of a ‘war of manoeuvre’; that is, sustained ideological subversion rather than violent political revolution. However, this is simply a difference of means, not of end. The goal remains the same: the destruction of Western culture and the replacement of the Christian church with the communist state.” (Pages 445–446)
- Title: Themelios: vol. 44, no. 3, December 2019
- Editor: Brian Tabb
- Contributing Editors: D.A. Carson and Daniel Strange
- Series: Themelios
- Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 219
- Resource Type: Journal