Themelios: Volume 47, No. 3, December 2022

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2022

Overview

Themelios is an international, evangelical, peer-reviewed theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. Themelios began in 1975 and was operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The editorial team, led by D.A. Carson, draws participants from across the globe as editors, essayists and reviewers. Each issue contains articles on important theological themes, as well as book reviews and discussion from the most important evangelical voices of our time.

Key Features

• Discusses books written by an assortment of authors and theologians
• Provides articles by contributors from numerous denominations and professions

Contents

• “EDITORIAL: One of the Saddest Texts in the OT,” by D. A. Carson
• “STRANGE TIMES: A Late Review of a Late Sonata in Late Modernity,” by Daniel Strange
• “The Cryptic Saying of Isaiah 28:10, 13 and Paul’s Controversy over Tongues in 1 Corinthians 14:20–25,” by Etienne Jodar
• “Numerical Symbolism in the Book of Revelation: A Weakness of Modern Bible Versions,” by Michael Kuykendall
• “Heaven’s War upon the Earth: How to Turn a Moderate 17th Century Pastor into a Radical,” by Nathan Parker
• “New Insights into the Formative Influence of Spurgeon’s Early Years,” by Geoff Chang
• “The Young J. I. Packer as a ‘New Warfield’? A Chapter in the Post-1930 Revival of Reformed Theology,” by Kenneth J. Stewart
• “J. I. Packer and the Next Wave of Evangelicalism: Foundations for Renewal,” by Paul R. House
• “The Explicit and Implicit Theological Method of J. I. Packer,” by Don J. Payne
• “Is the Holy Spirit Really a ‘Person’—with a Distinct Personality?,” by John Jefferson Davis
• “A Biblical-Theological Framework for Human Sexuality: Applications to Private Sexuality,” by Trent A. Rogers and John K. Tarwater
• “‘The Sanctification of Our Speech’: The Theological Function of Truth and Falsehood in John Webster’s ‘Sins of Speech,’” by Robb Torseth
• Book Reviews

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 47, no. 3, December 2022
• Editor: Brian Tabb
• Contributing Editors: D.A. Carson and Daniel Strange
• Series: Themelios
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2022
• Pages: 211
• Resource Type: Journal

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.