Tuesday 13 August 2013

Themelios 38, 2 (August 2013)


The latest Themelios is online here (and available here as a single pdf), containing the following articles:

Editorial
D.A. Carson
Kingdom, Ethics, and Individual Salvation
In recent years a number of stances have arisen that have set themselves over against traditional evangelicalism and traditional Reformed thought, not a few of them arguing, in part, on the basis of a particular understanding of the kingdom. These stances claim to be more biblical and thus more faithful than traditional stances. To some extent they overlap; to some extent each is identifiably different from the others...

Off the Record
Michael J. Ovey
From Moral Majority to Evil Disbelievers: Coming Clean about Christian Atheism
People rightly note the way Christians in English-speaking Western culture have moved in a generation from being ‘moral majority’ to ‘immoral minority’. But I wonder whether that really catches the intensity of the dislike and disdain that I see in the two Western societies with which I am most familiar, the UK and Australia. You see, when I read the Sydney Morning Herald or the UK’s Guardian, what I perceive goes beyond a simple charge of immorality...

Peter Orr
Abounding in the Work of the Lord (1 Cor 15:58): Everything we Do as Christians or Specific Gospel Work?
One of the deepest impacts of the Reformation on Western Culture arose from the robust rearticulation of the biblical doctrines of creation and vocation. Luther may have captured the combined impact of these neglected doctrines most strongly by rejecting the enshrined sacred-secular divide that was so prevalent in medieval thought. Luther emphasised the ordinary activities of daily life ‘as examples of a Christian’s return to creation and embrace of vocation’...

Owen Strachan
Carl F.H. Henry’s Doctrine of the Atonement: A Synthesis and Brief Analysis
Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry (1913–2003) was an American theologian in the conservative evangelical tradition. Born on Long Island and trained as a journalist, Henry served as the first editor of Christianity Today from 1956 to 1968. Henry earned two doctorates, including a PhD in theology from Boston University. The capstone work of his career was the six-volume series God, Revelation, and Authority, published in stages from 1976 to 1983...

Gerald R. McDermott
Will All Be Saved?
Will everyone one day be saved? Is hell only temporary, if it exists at all? If the answer is yes to either of these questions, the historic Christian commitment to the conversion of the world to Christ would appear to be somewhat silly. Why go to such effort and expense trying to persuade people that Jesus is the only way if they all will see that eventually anyway? Why risk offending people – especially those who follow other religious traditions...

Book Reviews

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