Themelios 17:1

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1991

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.

• The Kansas City Prophets: an Assessment, by Nigel G. Wright
• Charismatic Prophecy and New Testament Prophecy, by Mark J. Cartledge
• Judgment and Promise: the Message of Jeremiah, by J. Gordon McConville
• Has the Chronology of the Hebrew Kings Finally been Settled? by Leslie McFall

Contents

Top Highlights

“Hill describes a Christian prophet in the NT as someone, divinely called and inspired, who occasionally or regularly receives intelligible and authoritative revelations which he/she is ‘impelled to deliver publicly’.” (Page 17)

“Does contemporary prophetic experience correspond to, or cohere with, NT prophecy? In other words, is NT prophecy similar to, or the same as, or different in kind to, contemporary prophecy?” (Page 17)

“These include the fact that prophecies are given as ‘direct quotations from the Lord’ (p. 121); and this he believes is compounded by too little attention to Paul’s injunction to weigh and test what is said. Therefore, in his opinion modern prophecies can be manipulative, arrogant and sometimes dishonest. Carson nevertheless indicates that there appears to be a degree of correspondence between the NT evidence and the contemporary phenomenon, although much of the charismatic packaging is unacceptable to him.” (Page 19)

“He argues that the NT and the modern phenomenon ‘roughly cohere’ at the following points: (1) Both are oracular speech based upon a perceptible revelatory impulse or event and usually marked by a standard formula of introduction, or a description of a visionary phenomenon; (2) The state of the prophet varies from mild dissociation to (controlled) trance state; (3) The ‘content’ of prophetic pronouncements is rarely if ever primarily doctrinal, but operates in the area of specific knowledge and guidance; (4) Prophetic oracles have ‘the same mixed enigmatic quality of authority evinced in 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Thessalonians’; (5) Modern prophecy is especially seen to fulfil the role expressed in 1 Corinthians 14:3.” (Page 18)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 17, No. 1, October/November 1991
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 17
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1991
• 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:THEMELIOS17_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:12Z

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.