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The new April 2020 issue of Themelios has 225 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats:

Theological Reflections on the Pandemic

BRIAN J. TABB

‘The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business’

DANIEL STRANGE

Politics, Conscience, and the Church: Why Christians Passionately Disagree with One Another over Politics, Why They Must Agree to Disagree over Jagged-Line Political Issues, and How

BY JONATHAN LEEMAN AND ANDREW DAVID NASELLI

Should the Local Church Resist Texts in Scripture that Clash with Western Culture? The Test Case of Leviticus 21:16–24

BY KATHERINE SMITH

Leviticus 18:5 and the Law’s Call to Faith: A Positive Reassessment of Paul’s View of the Law

BY ETIENNE JODAR

The Genesis of the Jerusalem Donation

BY DARYN GRAHAM

Graham explains that Paul’s largest charity drive, the Jerusalem Donation, did not begin by his own initiative or with pressure from the Jerusalem church. Rather, this donation began with ordinary believers in Achaea, Macedonia and Galatia and reflected Christian solidarity, love between Gentile and Jewish believers, and genuine concern for other believers suffering from the effects of the famine.

Paul’s Overlooked Allusion to Joel 2:9 in 1 Thessalonians 5:2

BY JORDAN ATKINSON

Atkinson argues that Paul compares the day of the Lord to a thief in the night in 1 Thessalonians 5:2 because of the influence of Joel 2:9. He departs from the scholarly consensus that the apostle here alludes to Jesus’s thief imagery for his second coming and concludes that Paul’s contextually faithful interpretation of Joel 2:9 is a model for how Christians should continue to interpret OT prophetic literature.

What Must She Do to Be Saved? A Theological Analysis of 1 Timothy 2:15

BY JARED M. AUGUST

August asserts that in 1 Timothy 2:15, “the woman” refers to Eve and that “childbirth” is the birth of the Messiah. He concludes that a messianic reading of this passage is not only exegetically viable but also that it reflects Paul’s use of the Adam/Christ contrast.

On Words, Meaning, Inspiration, and Translation: A Brief Response to Bill Mounce

BY DANE ORTLUND

Ortlund responds to Bill Mounce’s recent Themelios essay, where he argues that functional equivalence translations such as the NIV more effectively carry over the meaning of the original text. Ortlund offers some clarifying remarks and reflects on three areas of disagreement: the usefulness of “literal” as a label, the relationship between words and meaning, and, most significantly, the nature of the divine inspiration of the Bible.

Affirmations and Denials Concerning World Mission

BY THE SOUTHGATE FELLOWSHIP

An international fellowship of theologians, missiologists, and reflective practitioners provides a biblical response to a host of missions, missiological, and theology of religions questions, reflected in 100 sets of affirmations and denials.

Matthew, Disciple and Scribe. The First Gospel and Its Portrait of Jesus

REVIEWED BY MARK L. STRAUSS

Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis

REVIEWED BY JESSE PAYNE

Redeeming Capitalism

REVIEWED BY JOHN ANDERSON

Is Jesus History?

REVIEWED BY PETER KOZUSHKO

A Place at His Table: A Biblical Exploration of Faith, Sexuality, and the Kingdom of God

REVIEWED BY DAVID PETERSON

One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham

REVIEWED BY KARIN SPIECKER STETINA

Themelios is a peer-reviewed international evangelical theological journal that expounds on the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students, pastors and scholars. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the UK, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008.