Themelios: Volume 50, No. 3, December 2025

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2025

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: Preparing Well: Encouragements for Aspiring Pastors - Brian J. Tabb
• Strange Time: The Three R’s - Daniel Strange
• The Unchained Word: A Public Theology of Free Speech - Andrew T. Walker & Kristen Waggoner
• Leviticus 8–10 as Narrative - John Goldingay
• Achan and Annihilation? Hyperbolic Language and the Justice of Yahweh in Joshua 7 - Jared August & Jonathan Lough
• The Right-Side-Up Kingdom: A Lexical, Contextual, and Theological Study of Acts 17:6 and Its Implications - Joanne J. Jung & Eric B. Oldenburg
• The Pastors and Teachers in Ephesians 4:11 - Jonathan D. Worthington
• Transposing Genre: Reading Hebrews 12:4–13 as Proverbial Wisdom - Adam Ch’ng
• From Logizomai to Luther: The Great Exchange and the Development of the Imputed Righteousness - Bradley Gray
• Does Edwards’s Exegetical Typology “Always andOnly Point to Spiritual Things Related to Christ?” A Response to Drew Hunter from the Evidence of the Blank Bible - Cameron Schweitzer
• The Christocentric and Christotelic Nature of Johannine Pneumatology - Adrian P. Rosen
• Missio Trinitatis: Theological Reflections on the Origin, Plan, and Purpose of God’s Mission - Brian A. DeVries
• Toward a Christian-Household Philosophy of Technology - Nicholas J. Weyrens
• The Scandal of Marriage: Towards a Theology of Sexual Differentiation - Jon Horne
• Book Reviews

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 50, No. 3, December 2025
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 50
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2025
• Pages: 251
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS50_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-12-15T19:05:57Z

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.