Themelios 33:2

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2008

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, by D. A. Carson
• Minority Report: The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read, by Carl Trueman
• Salvation History, Chronology, and Crisis: A Problem with Inclusivist Theology of Religions, Part 1 of 2, by Adam Sparks
• “Work Out Your Salvation”: Conduct “Worthy of the Gospel” in a Communal Context, by Paul Hartog
• The Longing of Love: Faith and Obedience in the Thought of Adolf Schlatter, by Dane C. Ortlund
• The Ethnic Enemy—No Greek or Jew … Barbarian, Scythian: The Gospel and Ethnic Difference, by Keith Ferdinando
• Pastoral Pensées: Barack Obama: The Quandary of “Selective Invisibility”, by Bruce L. Fields

Contents

Top Highlights

“The thesis of the book is devastatingly simple: Christianity, built on the authoritative, divinely-inspired, inerrant revelation of God in Scripture, embodying a robust supernaturalism, and focused on the exclusivity of salvation in the person and work of Christ, is a different religion to that liberalism that repudiates each of these things.” (Page 4)

“The concept of Salvation History or the History of Redemption (Heilsgeschichte) is accepted in Reformed theology as an important framework for understanding the continuity of Old and New Testaments and the progressive nature of revelation.” (Page 9)

“‘In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.’” (Page 5)

“The question is thus not whether we are intolerant: we surely are. The question is rather: Are we intolerant of the right things?” (Page 5)

“Machen corpus is his remarkable little book, entitled simply Christianity and Liberalism” (Page 4)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 33, No. 2, September 2008
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 33
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 124
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS33_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:44:01Z

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.