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“The gospel is what we must believe in order to be saved. To believe the gospel is to put one’s trust and confidence in the person and work of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord. To preach the gospel is faithfully to proclaim that historical event, along with the God-given interpretation of that event. It cannot be stressed too much that to confuse the gospel with certain important things that go hand in hand with it is to invite theological, hermeneutical and spiritual confusion…. Thus Christians cannot ‘live the gospel’, as they are often exhorted to do. They can only believe it, proclaim it and seek to live consistently with it. Only Jesus lived (and died) the gospel. It is a once-for-all finished and perfect event done for us by another.”

Graeme Goldsworthy in Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics, 19.

Themelios 36:1

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Criticizing the Pastor

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Giveaway Contest

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Themelios Journal

November 2009 Issue

Contents

Editorial by D.A. Carson

Minority Report: Lest We Forget by Carl Trueman

The Perspicuity of Scripture by Wayne Grudem

Christocentrism: An Asymmetrical Trinitarianism by Dane C. Ortlund

Bearing Sword in the State, Turning Cheek in the Church: A Reformed Two-Kingdoms Interpretation of Matthew 5:38–42 by David VanDrunen

“Deliver Us from the Evil One”: Martin Luther on Prayer by Mark Rogers

Pastoral Pensées Power in Preaching: Delight (2 Corinthians 12:1–10), Part 3 of 3 by Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.

Puritan Reformed Journal

Volume 1 Number 2, July 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

BIBLICAL STUDIES
Bright Shadows: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (2)—David Murray

Heart-Reading: Recovering a Spiritual Approach to the Bible—Gerald Bilkes

Significance of Suffering in the Study of First Peter—Brian Najapfour

Love of the Brethren in 1 John and Church History—Michael A.G. Haykin

SYSTEMATIC AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
Cur Deus Homo? A Closer Look at the Atonement Theories of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux—Jonathon Beeke

Calvin on the Promises of God—Pieter DeVries

Omnipotent Sweetness? Puritanism versus Socinianism—Joel M. Heflin

“To Walk According to the Gospel”: The Origin and History of The Marrow of Modern Divinity—William Van Doodewaard

The Reformed Dogmatics of G.H. Kersten Compared with His Older Contemporaries, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck—Pieter Rouwendal

EXPERIENTIAL THEOLOGY
Calvin as an Experiential Preacher—Joel R. Beeke

Blessedness in the Piety of William Perkins: Objective Reality or Subjective Experience?—Stephen Yuille

The Biblical-Experimental Foundations of Jonathan Edwards’s Theology of Religious Experience, 1720–1723—Karin Spiecker Stetina

PASTORAL THEOLOGY AND MISSIONS
According to the Custom of the Ancient Church? Examining the Roots of John Calvin’s Liturgy—Daniel R. Hyde

John Calvin and Missions—Derek Thomas

Five Reasons why the Sabbath is Designed for Worship—Ryan M. McGraw

CONTEMPORARY AND CULTURAL ISSUES
Can We Hope for a Neocalvinist-Neopuritan Dialogue?—Ray Pennings

Because Men Love Darkness: Culture’s Dangerous Infatuation with Halloween—David J. Bissett

Interview with Joel Beeke about Reformed Churches and Seminaries

REVIEW ARTICLES
Theology of the Old Testament—Pieter DeVries

Continuity or Discontinuity in Evangelical History—Sharon James

Jay E. Adams, Keeping the Sabbath Today?—Ryan M. McGraw

The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism—Randall J. Pederson

BOOK REVIEWS
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., He is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.

Wendy Horger Alsup, Practical Theology for Women: How Knowing God Makes a Difference in our Daily Lives—Tracy Mickle

Josh Moody, The God-Centered Life: Insights from Jonathan Edwards for Today—Allen R. Mickle, Jr.

M. X. Lesser, Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three Parts, 1729–2005—Randall J. Pederson

George Marsden, A Short Life of Jonathan Edwards—Randall J. Pederson

HT: Rev. Daniel R. Hyde, http://www.oceansideurc.org

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