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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Nathan Sherman |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Adam Friend
ARTICLESVolume 49 - Issue 1 AbstractHow do we decide what to label people of centuries past when they had no clear labels for themselves? Should we describe seventeenth century Baptists as “Baptists” if that was not what they called themselves?
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman |Adam Friend
ARTICLESVolume 49 - Issue 1 Donald A. Carson is well-known for his many academic and popular writings, including noted commentaries on Matthew and John, a standard introduction to the New Testament, and the popular devotional work, For the Love of God.1 Carson served with distinction for decades at Trinity Evangelical Divinity, where he is now emeritus professor of New Testament. And he co-founded The Gospel Coalition with Pastor Timothy Keller.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Paul Avis |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
Like the other volumes in the Oxford Handbooks series, this is a significant contribution to the academic study of its subject area, in this case, ecclesiology. The editor, Paul Avis, is an Anglican priest and theologian who has served both the church and the academy. He is widely published in the area of ecclesiology and also edits the academic journal Ecclesiology.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Adam Friend |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
AbstractSonship appears in every section, at every turning point, and on the lips of every character in Matthew’s Gospel. In determining the motif’s function, the religious leaders have largely been neglected. This study analyzes Matthew’s development of the motif of sonship in Matthew 11:1–16:11, arguing that the religious leaders clarify the positive concept of sonship from their provision of its negative example. For Matthew, sonship must be actualized in obedience.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman |Lalsangkima Pachuau
For those interested in understanding how missions relates to the heart of theology, Lalsangkima Pachuau, Professor of Christian Mission at Asbury Theological Seminary, helpfully offers his recent work, God at Work in the World. Pachuau cogently and concisely argues for founding our theology of mission in the Trinitarian God’s work in the world, namely in the salvific mission of Christ, sent by the Father through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | G. Geoffrey Harper |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
Appreciation of the creativity, beauty, and rhetorical power of Israel’s Scriptures continues to enjoy a resurgence. Andrew Davis, associate professor at the Boston College School of Theology, commendably continues this trajectory with respect to the poetics of Amos.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Melvin L. Otey |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
ARTICLESVolume 49 - Issue 1 AbstractScholars disagree about the precise nature of the sin that provokes God’s wrath in Genesis 19. In fact, multiple transgressions are involved, including fornication, rape, and inhospitality. Christian exegetes traditionally emphasize the apparently homoerotic aspects of the Sodomites’ demand to “know” the angels inside Lot’s home.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Obbie Todd |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
ARTICLESVolume 49 - Issue 1 AbstractWhile the term “Christian republicanism” is known to most historians of the early republic, very few have attempted to explicate its unique theology or to identify its various religious, moral, and even racial permutations in the church. Christian republicanism was much more than just a set of political or social commitments. It was also a loose theological system.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Robert D. Golding |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
ARTICLESVolume 49 - Issue 1 AbstractThere is a curious tendency in modern culture to simultaneously reject objective truth (e.g., “live your truth”) and to live as if it were real (e.g., “you must fight for the truth”). Objectivity has worked its way back into the subjectivity of postmodernism. This is not pure postmodernism, nor a return to the modernism that preceded it. This is a new phase, which I call metamodernism (a term coined elsewhere).
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Roger Fay |Brian Tabb |Benjamin L. Gladd |Nathan Sherman
AbstractThe importance of justification by faith to the thinking of John Wesley (1703–1791) both during and after his Aldersgate Street experience in May 1738 has long been doubted by some Wesley scholars. This article demonstrates that the historical data surrounding Aldersgate is compelling and points to the validity of Wesley’s own interpretation of that occasion.
