Themelios 31:2

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2006

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.

• Is Jesus Lost? Evangelicals and the Search for the Historical Jesus, by Michael Pahl
• Putting Suspenders on the World: Radical Orthodoxy as a Post-Secular Theological Proposal or What Can Evangelicals Learn from Postmodern Christian Platonists? by R. Michael Allen
• What’s Emerging in the Church? Postmodernity, The Emergent Church, and the Reformation, by Jeffrey K. Jue
• Chastity and the Goodness of God: The Case for Premarital Sexual Abstinence, by Steven Tracy
• The Last Word: A Stone Hushin’ Life, by Robbie F. Castleman

Contents

Top Highlights

“Surely one of Satan’s most widespread, persistent lies is that one must go outside of God’s commandments to find well-being because God’s interests and our best interests don’t always intersect.” (Page 54)

“Instead, the Emergent Church seeks to establish a community, both theological and ecclesial, that breaks down the isolation and integrates Christian faith and life. But their reaction to evangelicalism’s radical individualism has led them to emphasize the community at the expense of the individual.” (Page 34)

“For these reasons, sex is most meaningful and healthy in a relationship in which a couple has made a vow of life long commitment to each other. This provides the safest and most intimate setting for sex, for only in marriage is sex experienced in a relationship in which all of life is shared together.” (Page 62)

“In real life, the unheralded, seldom discussed world of married sex is actually the one that satisfies most people” (Page 64)

“In Genesis 1:26, the Hebrew words zachar and nekebah are used to convey ‘male’ and ‘female’. These two words are expressly sexual, and literally mean ‘piercer’ and ‘one pierced’.” (Page 56)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: Volume 31, No. 2, January 2006
• Author: The Gospel Coalition
• Edition: 2
• Series: Themelios
• Volume: 31
• Publisher: Gospel Coalition
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2011
• Pages: 122
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Religious studies › Periodicals
• Resource ID: LLS:THEMELIOS31_2
• Resource Type: Journal
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-02-04T21:32:53Z

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.