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.
“But to reduce fundamentalism to a particular understanding of the Bible, as Machen’s contemporaries did and later historians have done, is to miss a much more basic point, namely, that conservatives like Machen believed liberalism compromised the Christian doctrine of redemption. That is why he believed liberalism constituted an entirely different religion. A faulty doctrine of Scripture, Machen also believed, could lead to other errors. Yet, he acknowledged repeatedly that a flawed understanding of biblical authority did not make one a liberal.” (Page 32)
“ Calvin says somewhere, zeal without knowledge is like a sword in the hand of a lunatic” (Page 1)
“The book’s thesis—that liberalism was an altogether different form of religion than Christianity—was provocative enough, but what added to Machen’s celebrity was the book’s apparent breach of etiquette. No one within mainstream Protestant circles had had the audacity to suggest that the American churches’ accomplishments were hurting the cause of Christ.” (Page 22)
“So instead of countering the epistemology of liberalism with a better one, or arguing for the propositional nature of truth, Machen played to his strength, namely the teaching of the New Testament. And here he attempted to show that the Bible did just the reverse of what liberalism claimed; theology preceded experience, not the other way around.” (Page 29)
“Religion itself, and even God, are made merely a means for the betterment of conditions upon this earth” (Page 25)