New Testament TheologyThis work is not a history of New Testament times, nor an account of New Testament religion. Nor does it proceed from a view that the New Testament was written as theology. We must bear in mind that the writers of the New Testament books were not writing set theological pieces. They were concerned with the needs of the churches for which they wrote. Those churches already had the Old Testament, but these new writings became in time the most significant part of the Scriptures of the believing community. As such, they should be studied in their own right, and these questions should be asked: What do these writings mean? What is the theology they express or imply? What is of permanent validity in them? We read these writings across a barrier of many centuries and from a standpoint of a very different culture. We make every effort to allow for this, but we never succeed perfectly. In this book I am trying hard to find out what the New Testament authors meant, and this not as an academic exercise, but as the necessary prelude to our understanding of what their writings mean for us today. -- From the Introduction |
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... Holy Spirit 11 The gospel of Luke and Acts: discipleship Part three The Johannine Writings 12 The gospel of John: the doctrine of Christ 13 The gospel of John: God the Father 14 The gospel of John: God the Holy Spirit 15 The gospel of ...
... Holy Spirit. This does not mean that all ways of expressing the Christian position are acceptable. Paul complained of “another gospel—that is not another” (Gal. 1:6—7), and through all the centuries the church has known of people who ...
... Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5). And his love is allpowerful. In a magnificently rhetorical passage Paul comes to his climax with the thought that nothing in this whole earth or beyond can separate God's people from God's love (Rom. 8:3839) ...
... Holy Spirit, who is clearly a very exalted personage. And he is “the Spirit of Christ” (Rom. 8:9; Phil. 1:19). People may call on the name of Christ in much the same fashion as they call on the name of God (1 Cor. 1:2; cf. 5:4); they ...
... Spirit of life in Christ Jesus” and “the law of sin and death” (Rom. 8:2), to cite but a few. Mostly he has in mind the law God gave through Moses, seeing it as a good gift of God: 'The law is holy, and the commandment holy and ...
Contents
the Holy Spirit | |
discipleship | |
Part three The Johannine Writings | |
the doctrine of Christ | |
God the Father | |
God the Holy Spirit | |
the Christian Life | |
The epistles of John | |
Part two The synoptic gospels and Acts | |
The gospel of Mark | |
The gospel of Matthew | |
the doctrine of God 8 The gospel of Luke and Acts the doctrine | |
Christ | |
the salvation of our | |
The revelation of John | |
Part four The general epistles | |
The epistle to the Hebrews | |
The epistle of James | |
The past epistle of Peter | |