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.
“IVP’s The New Dictionary of Theology defines natural theology as ‘Truths about God that can be learned from created things (nature, man, world) by reason alone’.28 The Reformation, in contrast, emphasized a return to Scripture alone as the source of knowledge of God, and thus of all else. Nature was interpreted through the lens of Scripture. Tolkien’s natural theology is unusual in that his stress is on the imagination, rather than on reason. In contrast, Lewis’s use of natural theology applied to both the reason and the imagination.” (Page 45)
“St Thomas Aquinas drew heavily on this Aristotelian concept. The human being actualizes the potentiality of nature, for example, making it knowable by the exercise of human reason.” (Page 44)
“So fiction, for C.S. Lewis, was the making of meaning rather than the literal restating of truths.” (Page 38)
“What are the theological implications of their stance?” (Page 39)
“I have had to use the word ‘theology’ in the title of this article in a very loose sense, a sense which I hope will become clear as the exposition proceeds. Broadly, it signifies the implications of the Christian reflection undergirding the exploration of fantasy in these two authors.” (Page 37)