The Gospel Coalition just released the latest issue of Themelios, which has 194 pages of articles and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software (coming soon). A print edition will be available for purchase in several weeks from Wipf and Stock publishers.
The latest issue opens with editorials by D. A. Carson and Mike Ovey. It includes a review essay by Nathan Finn on three recent books on evangelicalism. The remaining four articles focus on the patriarch Abraham. David Gibson and Martin Salter explore Abraham’s important place in paedobaptist and credobaptist theology, building upon their earlier exchange on baptism in Themelios 37.2. Next, David Shaw reflects on the patriarch’s significance in Romans and Paul’s doctrine of justification. Shaw critically interacts with the influential interpretations by N. T. Wright and Douglas Campbell, among others. Finally, in the Pastoral Pensées column, Matthew Rowley addresses the problematic reception history of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac and offers guidelines for interpreting and applying Genesis 22. The issue closes with 59 book reviews in Old Testament, New Testament, history and historical theology, systematic theology and bioethics, ethics and pastoralia, and mission and culture.
Links to all editorials, articles, and book reviews in Themelios 40.1 are included below.
- D. A. Carson | Editorial: Why the Local Church Is More Important Than TGC, White Horse Inn, 9Marks, and Maybe Even ETS
- Michael J. Ovey | Off the Record: Courtier Politicians and Courtier Preachers
- Brian J. Tabb | Editor’s Note: Abraham, Our Father
- David Gibson | ‘Fathers of Faith, My Fathers Now!’: On Abraham, Covenant, and the Theology of Paedobaptism
- Martin Salter | The Abrahamic Covenant in Reformed Baptist Perspective
- David Shaw | Romans 4 and the Justification of Abraham in Light of Perspectives New and Newer
- Nathan A. Finn | Evangelical History after George Marsden: A Review Essay
- Matthew Rowley | Pastoral Pensées: Irrational Violence? Reconsidering the Logic of Obedience in Genesis 22
- Old Testament Reviews
- The SBL Handbook of Style: For Biblical Studies and Related Disciplines. 2nd ed.
- Francis I. Andersen and A. Dean Forbes. Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized.
- Antoine Bret. The World Is Not Six Thousand Years Old—So What?
- Walter Brueggemann. Ice Axes for Frozen Seas: A Biblical Theology of Provocation.
- Jerome N. Douglas. A Polemical Preacher of Joy: An Anti-Apocalyptic Genre for Qoheleth’s Message of Joy.
- Walter C. Kaiser Jr. and Dorington G. Little. Biblical Portraits of Creation: Celebrating the Maker of Heaven and Earth.
- Timothy Michael Law. When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible.
- Cynthia Miller-Naudé and Ziony Zevit, eds. Diachrony in Biblical Hebrew.
- William Thomas Miller. A Compact Study of Numbers.
- Jeffrey J. Niehaus, Biblical Theology: The Common Grace Covenants.
- Iain Provan. Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters.
- New Testament Reviews
- Per Beskow. Rex Gloriae: The Kingship of Christ in the Early Church.
- Joel B. Green, Jeannine K. Brown, and Nicholas Perrin, eds. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. 2nd ed.
- Sigurd Grindheim. God’s Equal: What Can We Know about Jesus’ Self-Understanding in the Synoptic Gospels?
- Douglas S. Huffman. Verbal Aspect and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament.
- Koester, Craig R. Revelation: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary.
- Bruce W. Longenecker and Mikeal C. Parsons, eds. Beyond Bultmann: Reckoning a New Testament Theology.
- Ralph P. Martin. 2 Corinthians. 2nd ed.
- Mackenzie Mulligan. Simon, Who Is Called Peter: Life as One of the Apostles.
- Peter R. Rodgers. Text and Story: Narrative Studies in New Testament Textual Criticism.
- Christopher R. Seitz. Colossians.
- Moisés Silva, ed. New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis. 2nd ed.
- History and Historical Theology Reviews
- Kevin Bauder and Robert Delnay. One in Hope and Doctrine: Origins of Baptist Fundamentalism, 1870–1950.
- James P. Byrd. Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution.
- D. Eryl Davies. Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones and Evangelicals in Wales: Bala Ministers’ Conference, 1955–2014.
- Matyáš Havrda, Vít Hušek, and Jana Plátová, eds. The Seventh Book of the Stromateis: Proceedings of the Colloquium on Clement of Alexandria.
- Thomas L. Humphries Jr. Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great.
- Peter J. Morden. Communion with Christ and His People: The Spirituality of C. H. Spurgeon.
- Randall J. Pederson. Unity in Diversity: English Puritans and the Puritan Reformation, 1603–1689.
- Robert F. Rea. Why Church History Matters: An Invitation to Love and Learn from Our Past.
- Ryan M. Reeves. English Evangelicals and Tudor Obedience, 1527–1570.
- Donald S. Whitney. Finding God in Solitude: The Personal Piety of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and Its Influence on His Pastoral Ministry.
- Systematic Theology and Bioethics Reviews
- Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler, and A. J. Swoboda. Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis.
- J. Kameron Carter. Race: A Theological Account.
- Oliver D. Crisp. Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology.
- John V. Fesko. The Theology of the Westminster Standards: Historical Context and Theological Insights.
- John F. Kilner. Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of God.
- Donald Macleod. Christ Crucified: Understanding the Atonement.
- Jason Sexton, ed. Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity.
- Ethics and Pastoralia Reviews
- Brian Brock. Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public.
- Gloria Furman. Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms.
- Jason B. Hood. Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern.
- Charles Marsh. Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
- David P. Setran and Chris A. Kiesling. Spiritual Formation in Emerging Adulthood: A Practical Theology for College and Young Adult Ministry.
- C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison. Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the 179 Patient Way of Jesus.
- David Helm. Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today.
- Bobby Jamieson. Sound Doctrine: How a Church Grows in the Love and Holiness of God.
- Jonathan Leeman. Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represent Jesus.
- Jonathan Leeman. Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus.
- Ray Ortlund. The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ.
- Jeramie Rinne. Church Elders: How to Shepherd God’s People Like Jesus.
- Mack Stiles. Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus.
- Mission and Culture Reviews
- John Bowlin, ed. The Kuyper Center Review (Volume 4): Calvinism and Democracy.
- Ryan C. McIlhenny, ed. Kingdoms Apart: Engaging the Two Kingdoms Perspective.
- Abraham Kuyper. Scholarship: Two Convocation Addresses on University Life.
- Richard Mouw. Called to the Life of the Mind: Some Advice for Evangelical Scholars.
- J. D. Payne and John Mark Terry. Developing a Strategy for Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction.
- Brian Steensland and Philip Goff, eds. The New Evangelical Social Engagement.
- Brent Waters. Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture: From Posthuman Back to Human.
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