Themelios 25:1

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 1999

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 Postmodern Challenge to Theology, by Douglas Groothuis
• Developments in Religious Education in England and Wales, by William K. Kay and L. Phillip Barnes
• Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: An Introduction, by D. Eryl Davies
• Review Article: Select Works of Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, by Martin Downes
• New Testament Christology or New Testament Christologies? by Geoffrey Grogan

Contents

Top Highlights

“First, a person can be regenerated by the Holy Spirit and converted to Christ without having been baptised with the same Spirit.⁵⁴ Second, Spirit-baptism for ML-J ‘is something that happens to us’⁵⁵ but not automatically⁵⁶ for it is ‘given’ and ‘it is the Lord who does it’. This point he establishes from the Acts narratives.⁵⁷ A third and ‘still more important’⁵⁸ principle for ML-J is that Spirit-baptism is ‘clear and unmistakable’, personally and corporately recognisable so is different in this respect from regeneration.” (Page 47)

“In fact, hearers ‘sense it at once … they are gripped, they become serious, they are convicted, they are moved, they are humbled. Some are convicted of sin … and begin to delight in the things of God’” (Page 45)

“Secondly, ML-J read widely, including many major theological volumes of varying theological shades” (Page 41)

“Firstly, he read privately the whole Bible each year and followed the practice until his death” (Page 41)

“The error of modernism was the construction of a false totality based on autonomous reasoning and humanistic utopianism that excluded divine revelation. The new error of postmodernism is the abandonment of metanarrative, the embracing of relativism, and the endorsement of cultural constructivism.” (Page 18)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 25, No. 1, November 1999
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 25
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 1999
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 155
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS25_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:43:36Z

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.