Themelios 6:3

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1981

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.

• Christian Ministry in its Theological Context, by Craig M. Watts
• Three Current Challenges of the Occult, by Anthony Stone
• The Status of Justification by Faith in Paul’s Thought: A Brief Survey of a Modern Debate, by Ronald Y.K. Fung
• Mercy Triumphs Over Justice: James 2:13 and the Theology of Faith and Works, by William Dyrness

Contents

Top Highlights

“In Sanders’ view, the central place in Paul’s soteriology is taken by the theme of participation: participation in Christ’s death so that one obtains ‘new life and the initial transformation which leads to the resurrection and ultimate transformation’, in Christ’s body and in the Spirit.” (Page 7)

“‘The doctrine of righteousness by faith is therefore,’ Schweitzer concludes, ‘a subsidiary crater, which has formed within the rim of the main crater—the mystical doctrine of redemption through the being-in-Christ’; it is ‘something incomplete and unfitted to stand alone’” (Page 6)

“‘works’ in James are the ‘doing of mercy’ that was required of God’s covenant people in the OT and that is to be the special characteristic of Christians, what James elsewhere calls the ‘law of liberty’ (1:25 and 2:12).” (Page 12)

“the mystical doctrine of dying and rising again with Christ” (Page 5)

“James and Paul were using their terms differently and in any case addressing themselves to different situations” (Page 12)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 6, No. 3, April 1981
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 6
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1981
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 32
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS06_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:42:41Z

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.