Themelios: Issue 35-3, November 2010

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2010

Contents

• "Editorial: A Contrarian Reflections on Individualism" by D. A. Carson
• "Minority Report: Terrible Beauty, Beauty, and the Plain Terrible" by Carl Trueman
• "Fiction and Truth in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature" by Daniel J. Estes
• "Plots, Themes, and Responsibilities: The Search for a Center of Biblical Theology Reexamined" by Daniel J. Brendsel
• "The Dazzling Darkness of God's Triune Love: Introducing Evangelicals to the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar" by Stephen M. Garrett
• "Pastoral Pensées: A World Servant in Christian Liberal Arts Education" by Philip Graham Ryken

Top Highlights

“allowing us to understand that spiritual formation is both located in and empowered by the Spirit of God. Dallas” (Page 510)

“In short, we need to re-think the link between individualism and selfism.” (Page 381)

“The triune God is actively engaged in increasing (and incarnating) his presence among his people, a presence that entails for his people the responsibility of worship, in the fourfold story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation.” (Page 412)

“Fourth, among theists, the ability to withstand the age of Self and promote a kind of Christian counter-cultural individualism embedded in a profound Christian communitarianism will depend, in no small part, on what we think of God.” (Page 382)

“All that follows from the Samuel/Saul story is that if Saul had acted differently, he would have remained king. But it does not at all follow that Saul could have acted differently!” (Page 519)

Product Details

• Title: Issue 35-2
• Editor: D. A. Carson
• Series: Themelios
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2010
• Pages: 190

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.