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Themelios: Volume 1, No. 3, Summer 1976 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Themelios is an international evangelical theological journal that expounds and defends the historic Christian faith. Its primary audience is theological students and pastors, though scholars read it as well. It was formerly a print journal operated by RTSF/UCCF in the United Kingdom, and it became a digital journal operated by The Gospel Coalition in 2008. The new editorial team, led by D.A....

the this-worldly, near-utopian universalism characteristic of this view of mission.7 Etymologically, shalom is a multi-coloured word. The root meaning is ‘to be whole, uninjured, undivided’, and it is used in an enormous variety of ways from describing everyday things of domestic life to the most profound religious expectations. At its most basic it describes general well-being, a wholly satisfactory condition (Gn. 15:15; 26:29; Ex. 18:23; Jdg. 19:20; 1 Sa.
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