Themelios: Volume 47, No. 1, April 2022

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2022

Overview

Themelios is an international, evangelical, peer-reviewed theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. Themelios began in 1975 and was operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The editorial team, led by D.A. Carson, draws participants from across the globe as editors, essayists and reviewers. 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: Wisdom and Hope in Difficult Days: Reading Revelation in 2022,” by Brian J. Tabb
• “STRANGE TIMES: Caring Because You Don’t,” by Daniel Strange
• “Helpful Distinction or Quarrel over Words? The Conquest as ‘Genocide’ in Evangelical Apologetics,” by Caleb Miller
• “The Spirit in Elisha’s Life: A Preview of Jesus Christ and the New Covenant,” by Gary L. Shultz Jr.
• “Targums As Guides to Hebrew Syntax,” by Michael B. Shepherd
• “Does Acts 4:23–31 Support the Practice of Simultaneous Prayer?,” by Scott D. MacDonald
• “Two Types of Work: Work for the Lord and Work for the Kingdom of God,” by Peter Orr
• “John Calvin’s Eucharistic Theology: A Pentecostal Analysis,” by Geoffrey Butler
• “Samuel Miller on the “Sanctified Judgment” of the Enlarged, Elevated, and Strengthened Mind: Piety, Learning, and the Right Kind of Bias,” by Paul Kjoss Helseth
• “Southern Yankees: Southern Baptist Clergy in the Antebellum North (1812–1861),” by Obbie Tyler Todd
• “Reassessing Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Objections to Divine Simplicity,” by Jean Gomes
• “The Divine and Adopted Son of God: A Response to Joshua Maurer and Ty Kieser,” by Richard B. Gaffin Jr. and David B. Garner
• Book Reviews

Top Highlights

“We can state it as follows: every Christian can do kingdom related work (1:9–10); some Christians’ activity is so dominated by this type of work that they can be described as ‘(co-)workers for the kingdom of God’ (4:11); those Christians whose time is dominated by other activity, such as slaves who still work ‘for the Lord’ (3:23) even though their service of their earthly masters is not ‘work for the kingdom’ per se.” (Page 78)

“Revelation resembles biblical and extrabiblical apocalyptic writings in at least three ways: (1) it discloses God’s ultimate purposes in salvation and judgment, (2) it presents a transcendent, God-centered perspective on reality, and (3) it challenges the people of God to evaluate their troubles in light of God’s present rule and future triumph. Revelation is also ‘a book of prophecy’ to be heeded by God’s people (1:3; 22:7).” (Page 2)

“Many popular authors and speakers commend reading Revelation in the light of current world events” (Page 1)

“these expressions of present happiness have an eschatological emphasis” (Page 5)

“Any work, even work done by a first century slave, is work of deep significance. It has theological value. It is work done ‘in the name of the Lord Jesus’ (3:17) and it is done ‘for the Lord’ (3:23) with the worker ‘serving the Lord Christ’ (3:24). It has eschatological value since the one who works faithfully this way will receive an inheritance from the Lord.” (Page 74)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 47, no. 1, April 2022
• Editor: Brian Tabb
• Contributing Editors: D.A. Carson and Daniel Strange
• Series: Themelios
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2022
• Pages: 229
• 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.