Themelios 32:3
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.
- The Last Word: The Great Commission: Ecclesiology, by Robbie F. Castleman
- A Surrejoinder to Peter Enns, by G.K. Beale
- Come to the Father: Ignatius of Antioch and His Calling to be a Martyr, by Michael A.G. Haykin
- Origins of the Particular Baptists, by Gordon L. Belyea
- Response to Greg Beale, by Peter Enns
Top Highlights
“Jesus inaugurates this commissioning with the assurance that the burden, the mission, is his, not theirs.” (Page 69)
“It turns out that this passage may have got its summary label from a Dutch missionary Justinian von Welz (1621–88), but it was Hudson Taylor, nearly 200 years later, who popularized the use of ‘The Great Commission’. So, it seems like Welz or some other Post-Reformation missionary probably coined the term ‘The Great Commission’ and since that time, the passage has been the theme for countless mission talks and conferences.” (Page 68)
“A careful study, though, of Ignatius’ thinking about his own death reveals a man who rightly knows that Christian believing demands passionate engagement of the entire person, even to the point of physical death.” (Page 28)
“he longed to see unity at every level in the life of the local churches to which he was writing” (Page 27)
“he conceives of it as an imitation of the death of Christ” (Page 34)