Themelios: vol. 37, no. 2, July 2012

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2012

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.

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Key Features

• Offers an editorial by D. A. Carson
• Discusses books written by an assortment of authors and theologians
• Provides articles by contributors from numerous denominations and professions

Contents

• “Editorial: The Beauty of Biblical Balance” by D. A. Carson
• “Off the Record: The Right to Ridicule?” by Michael J. Ovey
• “Bonhoeffer as Bible Scholar” by Robert W. Yarbrough
• “Sacramental Supersessionism Revisited: A Response to Martin Salter on the Relationship between Circumcision and Baptism” by David Gibson
• “Response to David Gibson” by Martin Salter
• “Telling the Story from the Bible? How Story Bibles Work” by David A. Shaw
• “High Stakes: Insider Movement Hermeneutics and the Gospel” by David B. Garner
• “Some Reflections on Enns and The Evolution of Adam: A Review Essay” by Hans Madueme

Top Highlights

“Many IM proponents insist that Muslims who convert to Christ should hold fast to various Islamic practices and avoid the identity of ‘Christian’ altogether. This avoidance exceeds the realm of labels, as converts are called to remain inside Islamic religion and retain their Islamic cultural and religious identity.” (Page 250)

“Some IM-ers assert that Christian missionaries should get ‘inside’ the social and religious boundaries by public conversion to Islam, and some western missionaries have become practicing Muslims to deliver the message of Jesus.⁸ Still others assert that genuine Islamic perspective affirms that the ‘religion revealed by all the prophets (e.g., Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, and Muhammad) was originally the same … ‘true Islam’ is what real Christians believe.’” (Pages 250–251)

“Christ’s coming has not terminated circumcision but transformed it. The fulfillment of physical circumcision in the circumcision of Christ means that circumcision still continues today. It is not now done by the hands of men, but by Christ for all those who are united to him by faith.” (Page 202)

“The reason the sign of the covenant may be applied to infants before there is any faith on their part is not because of a lower view of baptism or a weaker view of the necessity of saving faith. It is because God’s covenant promise of righteousness by faith for all those who believe has always been for their descendants as well.” (Page 205)

“a seal of the promise of God’s grace to be received by faith, not of the faith that received the promise of grace” (Page 196)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 37, no. 2, July 2012
• Editor: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2012

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.