Digital Logos Edition
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.
“To say that predestination is conditioned by foreknowledge is to introduce an indirect human factor, outside the divine intellect, that will destroy the absoluteness of the sovereign will.” (Page 16)
“Man’s free will should decide between good and evil. And predestination depends on divine knowledge of man’s future response.” (Page 16)
“1. The prophets considered themselves vehicles through whom God himself spoke” (Page 10)
“Calvin’s understanding, foreknowledge does not mean prior in time but transcendent in time. God operates in the realm of eternity, which is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different from the temporal continuum. He embraces the entire human history in his eternal present. This simultaneous knowledge implies that God does not make a decision at some past moment and then, after an interval, brings it into action. Only human activity goes this way. God does not only conceive events through ideas but ‘he truly looks upon them and discerns them as things placed before him’.7 He is no passive observer of events to occur.” (Page 16)
“We could conclude that eternal life in John is the Father and the Son ‘making their home’ with the believer—through the Spirit. Receiving the Spirit and receiving eternal life are thus to be seen not as two separate blessings, but in a very real sense as the same blessing.” (Page 5)