Themelios: vol. 39, no. 2, July 2014

by The Gospel Coalition; D. A. Carson

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, 2014

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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

“Editorial: What Are Gospel Issues?” by D.A. Carson
“Off the Record: Projection Atheism: Why Reductionist Accounts of Humanity Can Lead to Reductionist Accounts of God” by Michael J. Ovey
“Editor’s Note: Engaging with Edwards: Essays on America’s Theologian” by Brian J. Tabb
“A Critical Examination of Jonathan Edwards’ Doctrine of the Trinity” by Ralph Cunnington
“Jonathan Edwards and God’s Inner Life: A Response to Kyle Strobel” by Gerald McDermott
“That Their Souls May Be Saved: The Theology and Practice of Jonathan Edwards on Church Discipline” by Jeremy M. Kimble
“John Henry Newman (1801–1890) in His Second Century” by Kenneth J. Stewart
“Pastoral Pensées: Laboring in Hopeless Hope: Encouragement for Christians from Ecclesiastes” by Eric Ortlund

Product Details

Title: Themelios: vol. 39, no. 2, July 2014
General Editor: D.A. Carson
Publisher: The Gospel Coalition
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 190

About D.A. Carson

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.

Top Highlights

“The word ‘already’ is most striking. I take Qohelet to be saying that before we achieve what we want in our work (if we ever do), God is already smiling on us. God is pleased with us irrespective of what we do or do not accomplish. To use a somewhat different framework, God is pleased with our lives irrespective of our works. God simply smiles and gives us these gifts. That is the value of our work: the status as gifts according to grace, not visible results we can give back to God.” (Page 288)

“In other words, God has put eternity in our hearts but bound us within time, all in order to drive us to himself. He is at work in all of human history (3:11; 7:13–15; 8:17), but in such a way that we cannot change anything he does (v. 14) or even understand what he is doing, regardless of our yearning to do so (v. 11). We are aware of something beyond time that God prevents us from finding so that, bereft of any bird’s-eye view of reality, bereft of any comprehensive, consistent grasp of the whole, we turn to God in love, reverence, and obedience. This is God’s purpose in subjecting his creation to הֶבֶל. Denied any kind of God-like mastery over or even understanding of our lives, we can turn to God as God and not just someone to give us what we want.” (Page 289)

“I take Qohelet to be saying that, as we move through those differing seasons of our lives that God has appointed for us (vv. 1–8), we sometimes get a hint of a far greater order of which individual seasons are only a small part.” (Page 288)

“Abstract: The book of Ecclesiastes diagnoses humanity’s tendency to link the value of human life with permanent accomplishment in our work. As a wisdom text, Ecclesiastes warns its readers that this approach leads to hatred of life as we realize that, from an ‘under the sun’ perspective, we gain nothing permanent in all our labor. The wisdom of the book of Ecclesiastes rather associates the value of human life and work in its status as a gift from God, irrespective of what we accomplish. Qohelet also explains why God has so disposed the present order of things that human beings labor much, but without permanent accomplishment. This article attempts to articulate Qohelet’s wisdom for living within the present age so that we can fully engage with and enjoy God’s gifts of life and work.” (Page 281)