Themelios: Volume 43, No. 3, December 2018

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2018

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: The Changing Face of Words,” by D.A. Carson
• “Strange Times: Meta-Madness,” by Daniel Strange
• “How Did Job Speak Rightly about God?,” by Eric Ortlund
• “Miserable but Not Monochrome: The Distinctive Characteristics and Perspectives of Job’s Three Comforters,” by Susanna Baldwin
• “John’s Appropriation of Isaiah’s Signs Theology: Implications for the Structure of John’s Gospel,” by Andreas J. Köstenberger
• “Why Paul Wrote Romans: Putting the Pieces Together,” by Will N. Timmins
• “Self-Deception in Theology,” by Joseph Pak
• “Answering Eastern Orthodox Apologists regarding Icons,” by John B. Carpenter
• “The New Atheist Sledgehammer: Like Epistemological Air Boxing,” by Ernie Laskaris
• Book Reviews

Top Highlights

“By contrast, freedom of conscience today is not far from an appeal to let everyone do that which is right in their own eyes. There is no eternal referent to which appeals might be made for a different interpretation; conscience is individualistic and self-referring.” (Page 341)

“Instead of glorifying God, we have brought shame to his name. In a shame culture, it is necessary to demonstrate that, in the light of what the Bible says about God, our deepest shame humbles us before the living God, who alone can raise us up.” (Page 341)

“the compulsive search for diversion is often an attempt to escape the wretchedness of life.” (Page 415)

“But note well that this was not freedom to choose anything; one’s conscience was constrained by the given revelation, by the authority of God. The question was how to interpret it.” (Page 341)

“For John, therefore, signs are uniquely performed by Jesus and singularly addressed to the people of Israel as proofs that Jesus is the Messiah.” (Page 386)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 43, no. 3, December 2018
• General Editor: D.A. Carson
• Series: Themelios
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2018
• Pages: 202
• Resource Type: Journal

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.