Themelios 22:1

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1996

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 Role of Methodism in the Chartist Movement, by Nigel Scotland
• Understanding Pauline Studies: Part One, by Stanley E. Porter
• Pentateuchal Studies Today, by Gordon W
• Evolution and Eschatology, by David N. Livingstone

Contents

Top Highlights

“The oldest paradigm of Pentateuchal study presupposes the Mosaic authorship of nearly the entire corpus from Genesis to Deuteronomy. Moses is not only the chief actor in most of these books, he is the recipient of all the laws in Exodus to Numbers, and the preacher of Deuteronomy. Indeed Deuteronomy 31:24 states that Moses wrote ‘the words of this law in a book, to the very end’. So generations of readers from pre-Christian times to the nineteenth century concluded that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch.” (Page 3)

“Hitherto the main purpose of study had been to understand the text as it stood and to apply its teaching. Now the main purpose of study was to understand how the text came into existence and the historical circumstances of its composition.” (Page 3)

“Whybray has two fundamental objections to the documentary hypothesis. The first is that it is illogical and self-contradictory and fails to explain what it professes to explain.” (Page 7)

“Hence opposition to the documentary hypothesis gradually waned, and by the mid-twentieth century it was almost universally accepted.” (Page 3)

“Hengel illustrates how very Greek Jerusalem, as well as Palestine, was at this time, including in its educational system” (Page 15)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 22, No. 1, October 1996
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 22
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1996
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 77
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS22_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:27Z

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.