Themelios: vol. 39, no. 1, April 2014

by The Gospel Coalition

Publisher:

Gospel Coalition

, 2014

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: Do the Work of an Evangelist” by D. A. Carson
• “Off the Record: The Covert Thrill of Violence? Reading the Bible in Disbelief” by Michael J. Ovey
• “Editor’s Note” by Brian J. Tabb
• “A Biblical Theologian Reviews Gerald Bray’s Systematic Theology” by Thomas R. Schreiner
• “Response to Tom Schreiner” by Gerald Bray
• “A Systematician Reviews Tom Schreiner’s Biblical Theology” by Gerald Bray
• “Response to Gerald Bray” by Thomas R. Schreiner
• “Revival Defined and Defended: How the New Lights Tried and Failed to Use America’s First Religious Periodical to Quiet Critics and Quell Radicals” by Collin Hansen
• “Should Evangelicals Embrace Historical Criticism? The Hays-Ansberry Proposal” by Robert W. Yarbrough
• “Pastoral Pensées: The Care of Souls: The Heart of the Reformation” by Ray Van Neste

Top Highlights

“In short, in the NT the gospel is preached both to unbelievers and to believers. It calls unbelievers to repentance and faith; it calls believers to ongoing faith and conformity to Jesus.” (Page 3)

“The context of 2 Tim 4:5 suggests that it is this large view of gospel ministry that is in view” (Page 3)

“Embrace’ apparently means accept the conclusions of and make doctrinal adjustments in response to. This book, then, is an apologetic for historical criticism at the expense of significant historic Christian (not merely evangelical) convictions.” (Page 38)

“Owing to the way in which two different English word-groups—gospel and evangel—are used to render one Greek word-group (εὐαγγέλιον and cognates), it is possible we have sometimes read into our English texts over-specifications that may not be there in the original. In its context in 2 Tim 4:5, a case can be made that εὐαγγελιστής is a prime example. ‘Do the work of an evangelist’ may well be an exhortation to engage in evangel ministry, in gospel ministry, which includes what we today mean by evangelism but should not be restricted to it.” (Page 4)

“English has two words, ‘gospel’ and ‘evangel,’ where the Greek has only one, εὐαγγέλιον.” (Page 2)

Product Details

• Title: Themelios: vol. 39, no. 1, April 2014
• General Editor: D. A. Carson
• Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
• Publication Date: 2014
• Pages: 214

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.