Themelios: Volume 42, No. 1, April 2017
Digital Verbum Edition
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
- 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: Subtle Ways to Abandon the Authority of Scripture” by D.A. Carson
- “Off the Record: ‘Just Mike’: A Tribute to Mike Ovey (1958-2017)” by Daniel Strange
- “Is Every Promise ‘Yes’? Old Testament Promises and the Christian” by Jason S. DeRouchie
- “The Messianic Hope of Genesis: The Protoevangelium and Patriarchal Promises for the Knowledge of Human Origins” by Jared M. August
- “A Biblical Theology of Blessing in Genesis” by Matt Champlin
- “Reflections on Handling the Old Testament as Jesus Would Have Us: Psalm 15 as a Case Study” by Dane Ortlund
- “Belting Out the Blues as Believers: The Importance of Singing Lamen”t by Robert S. Smith
- “For Your Sake We Are Being Killed All Day Long: Romans 8:36 and the Hermeneutics of Unexplained Suffering” by David Starling
- “Gospel Differences, Harmonisations, and Historical Truth: Origen and Francis Watson's Paradigm Shift?” by Frederik S. Mulder
- Book Reviews
Top Highlights
“This is the stance that insists that all the relevant biblical passages on a stated subject are exegetically confusing and unclear, and therefore we cannot know (hence ‘imperious’) the mind of God on that subject.” (Page 6)
“More recently, however, I have been pondering the fact that many Christians slide away from full confidence in the trustworthiness of Scripture for reasons that are not so much intellectual as broadly cultural.” (Page 1)
“Believers frequently ask God to bless them or their work without considering whether they are in a position to receive God’s blessing or whether they want to be placed in such a position.” (Page 63)
“Practically speaking, the claim of dogmatic ignorance, ostensibly arising from Scripture’s lack of clarity, criticizes Scripture while allowing people to adopt the positions they want.” (Page 6)
“The summons of this psalm is for the saved, not for salvation.” (Page 81)
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.
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Reviews
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Richard C. Hammond, Jr.
1/5/2023
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7/5/2019
Debra W Bouey
7/27/2017
