Themelios: vol. 37, no. 3, November 2012

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2012

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.

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Key Features

• Offers an editorial by D. A. Carson
• Discusses books written by an assortment of authors and theologians
• Provides articles by contributors from numerous denominations and professions

Contents

• “Editorial: More Examples of Intolerant Tolerance” by D. A. Carson
• “Off the Record: Sorrow at Another’s Good?” by Michael J. Ovey
• “The Present and Future of Biblical Theology” by Andreas J. Köstenberger
• “Music, Singing, and Emotions: Exploring the Connections” by Rob Smith
• “The Writing Pastor: An Essay on Spiritual Formation” by Peter R. Schemm Jr.

Top Highlights

“Biblical theology is essentially a historical discipline calling for an inductive and descriptive method.” (Page 445)

“G. K. Beale recently called ‘the classic approach.’¹² This classic approach involves studying first the message and theological content of individual biblical books, followed by an attempt at synthesis tracing overarching themes across various corpora.” (Page 447)

“Over the rainbow’. What Harburg famously said was this: ‘Words make you think a thought; music makes you feel a feeling; a song makes you feel a thought.’” (Page 469)

“He defines biblical theology as ‘the study of how every text in the Bible relates to every other text in the Bible’ and as ‘the study of the matrix of divine revelation in the Bible as a whole.’⁶² He further refines the definition by stating that biblical theology is the study of how every text relates to Christ and the gospel.⁶³ Goldsworthy also links his proposal with salvation history, underscoring the importance of biblical revelation and its unified progression.” (Page 456)

“This approach does not identify one theme as the central idea but argues that there is an overarching metanarrative that unifies the Scriptures.” (Page 455)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 37, no. 3, November 2012
• Editor: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2012

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.