Themelios 18:3

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1993

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.

• Editorial: ‘All our gods have failed’, by Chris Wright
• Gaia Spirituality: A Christian Critique, by Loren Wilkinson
• The Image of God in Humanity: A Biblical-Psychological Perspective, by R. Ward Wilson and Craig L. Blomberg
• The Roles of Women and the Man in Genesis 3, by Richard S. Hess
• A Survey of Church History Articles 1990–1992, by Martin Davie
• Evolution, Development and Serendipity in the New Testament (A Response), by Greg Forster

Contents

Top Highlights

“With the Reformers, it is fair to speak of this image of God as ‘moral’; with more recent theologies, it is important to point out that all the elements are ‘relational’ or interpersonal in nature. As the image of God is increasingly perfected in redeemed humanity, persons are enabled not only to relate more adequately to God but also to other people.” (Page 9)

“In fact, the rainbow of character traits revealed in Exodus 34:6–7 finds echoes in virtually every major NT listing of cardinal attributes incumbent for believers.” (Page 9)

“Notice how easy it was for the couple to forget God’s word the minute he was absent, even in the midst of his creation.” (Page 17)

“Yet Genesis 9:6 and James 3:9 both seem to require that God’s image, to some significant degree, remains in all humans even after the fall. In addition, moral awareness (knowledge of good and evil) is precisely what the creation narratives suggest Adam and Eve did not have, prior to the fall.¹⁴ Still, being in a state of moral perfection is not the same as consciousness of that perfection or of the means to maintain it.” (Page 9)

“But all these views depend less on exegesis than on philosophy, as they try to answer the question of what humans and God have in common that sets them apart from the rest of created life.” (Page 8)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 18, No. 3, April 1993
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 3
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 18
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• 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:THEMELIOS18_3
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:17Z

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.