Themelios: Volume 45, No. 2, August 2020

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2020

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

• Discusses books written by an assortment of authors and theologians
• Provides articles by contributors from numerous denominations and professions

Contents

• “Editorial: Pursuing Scholarship in a Pandemic: Reflections on Lewis’s ‘Learning in War-Time,’” by Brian J. Tabb
• “Strange Times: Praise and Polemic in Our Global Pandemic,” by Daniel Strange
• “The Use of Leviticus 18:5 in Galatians 3:12: A Redemptive-Historical Reassessment,” by Jason S. DeRouchie
• “Celebration and Betrayal: Martin Luther King’s Case for Racial Justice and Our Current Dilemma,” by James S. Spiegel
• “Christ and the Concept of Person,” by Lydia Jaeger
• “The ‘Epistle of Straw’: Reflections on Luther and the Epistle of James,” by Martin Foord
• “Interpreting Faith in the Reformation: Catholic and Protestant Interpretations of Habakkuk 2:4b and Its New Testament Quotations,” by Mario M.C. Melendez
• “The Resurgence of Two Kingdoms Doctrine: A Survey of the Literature,” by Michael N. Jacobs
• “Why Not Grandchildren? An Argument Against Reformed Paedobaptism,” by Gavin Ortlund
• “Is ‘Online Church’ Really Church? The Church as God’s Temple,” by Ronald L. Giese, Jr.
• “Pastoral Pensées: Text-Criticism and the Pulpit: Should One Preach About the Woman Caught in Adultery?,” by Timothy E. Miller
• Book Reviews

Top Highlights

“Thus, a credobaptist can agree with Warfield that baptism is ‘similar’ to circumcision, but will take this similarity as most paedobaptists take the relation of the Passover meal and the Lord’s Supper, in that one fulfills the other but not in so identical a manner as to justify paedocommunion.” (Page 335)

“A war—or a pandemic—does not really create a ‘new situation’; rather, it forces us to recognize ‘the permanent human situation’ that people have always ‘lived on the edge of a precipice’ (p. 49). ‘Normal life’ is a myth; if people wait for optimal conditions before searching out knowledge of what is true, good, and beautiful, they will never begin.” (Page 228)

“‘when your ultimate conviction is that there is no eternal then you’re most prone to absolutize the temporal.’^{10” (Page 236)}

“Lewis argues that we should not sharply distinguish between our ‘natural’ and ‘spiritual’ human activities since ‘every duty is a religious duy’ (pp. 53–55). Whether someone is a composer or cleaner, a classicist or carpenter, their natural work becomes spiritual when they offer it humbly ‘as to the Lord’ (pp. 55–56).” (Page 228)

“No extant manuscript before the fifth century contains the reading. Even in manuscripts that contain the text, it is often accompanied by a mark identifying the debatable nature of the passage. The literature of the early church fathers provides little additional confidence, for with the exception of Didymus the Blind, none of the Greek fathers (e.g., Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, etc.) mention the passage for the first millennium of the church’s existence.” (Page 372)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 45, no. 2, August 2020
• Editor: Brian Tabb
• Contributing Editors: D.A. Carson and Daniel Strange
• Series: Themelios
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2020
• Pages: 256
• 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.