Columns

Themelios Then and Now: The Journal’s Name, History, and Contribution

by Brian J. Tabb

Frequently my computer or “smart” phone autocorrects Themelios to Themeless...

Sad Solo

by Daniel Strange

Articles

Disputation for Scholastic Theology: Engaging Luther’s 97 Theses

by Michael Allen

The essay first seeks to unpack the anthropological and soteriology teaching of Martin Luther’s diatribe “against scholastic theology,” that is, against Semi-Pelagian or Pelagian moral anthropology in his 97 Theses of September 1517...

Finessing Independent Attestation: A Study in Interdisciplinary Biblical Criticism

by Lydia McGrew

The claim that some incident or saying in the Gospels is multiply and independently attested is sometimes made in the wrong way by biblical scholars...

Biblical Words and Theological Meanings: Sanctification as Consecration for Transformation

by Ben C. Dunson

Protestants have traditionally understood sanctification as God’s work of gradual spiritual transformation over the entire life of every believer...

The Boundaries of the Gift of Tongues: With Implications for Cessationism and Continuationism

by Vern S. Poythress

Speaking in tongues potentially includes three subcategories: (1) known language; (2) unknown language; and (3) language-like utterance—an utterance consists of language-like sounds but does not belong to any actual human language...

Towards a Definition of New Testament Prophecy

by Richard M. Blaylock

A Response to Tom Schreiner

by Andrew Wilson

It All Depends Upon Prophecy: A Brief Case for Nuanced Cessationism

by Thomas R. Schreiner

Nuanced cessationism can be defended from a number of angles, but one of the most significant is from the nature of prophecy...

A Response to Andrew Wilson

by Thomas R. Schreiner

The Continuation of the Charismata

by Andrew Wilson

This article first defines the scope of the debate over whether or not Christians today should earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially prophecy...