Themelios: Volume 41, No. 1, April 2016

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2016

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.

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: When Did the Church Begin?” by D.A. Carson
• “Off the Record: The Art of Imperious Ignorance” by Michael J. Ovey
• “Conversion in C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength” by Gavin Ortlund
• “Calling on the Name of the Lord: The Meaning and Significance of ἐπικαλέω in Romans 10:13” by Joel D. Estes
• “The Scribe Who Has Become a Disciple: Identifying and Becoming the Ideal Reader of the Biblical Canon” by Ched Spellman
• “Paul and the Gift: A Review Article” by Thomas R. Schreiner
• “Daniel Strange on the Theological Question of the Unevangelized: A Doctrinal Assessment” by Kyle Faircloth
• “This Rock Unmoved: A Rejoinder to Kyle Faircloth” by Daniel Strange
• “Pastoral Pensées: The Eighth Commandment as the Moral Foundation for Property Rights, Human Flourishing, and Careers in Business” by Wayne Grudem
• “Book Reviews”

Top Highlights

“People from a dispensational heritage emphasize discontinuity between the covenants, and therefore commonly argue that the church begins at Pentecost; people from a covenant-theology heritage emphasize the continuity of the covenant of grace, think in terms of fulfillment of what was promised, and therefore argue that the ‘assembly’ of the people of God is one, and that therefore it is a mistake to argue that the church begins at Pentecost.” (Page 1)

“You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church [ἐκκλησία] of the firstborn” (Page 1)

“Barclay helps us see that all players in Second Temple Judaism believed in grace, even if they understood it differently. But it does not follow from this that we should accept all conceptions of grace as equally valid, for that is a theological question that cannot and should not be decided by history.” (Page 57)

“By contrast, Reformed Baptists think that under the terms of the new covenant, the locus of the covenant community, the church, is ideally to be identified with the locus of the elect—and this is different from the way things work under the old covenant.” (Page 3)

“Yet most attractive of all is that the claim of lack of clarity or ignorance allows one to pursue one’s own position quite dogmatically while appearing to be very undogmatic. After all, the claim of ignorance looks as though it advances no position, but vitally it tacitly asserts that one’s opponent’s position cannot be decisively asserted—it is forever only a possibility, not a certainty on which one could base action or decision. There is something very rewarding in being a closet dogmatist while appearing to be the reverse.” (Page 7)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 41, No. 1, April 2016
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 1
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 41
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS41_1
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-08T05:44:24Z

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.