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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... Lord 3 God's Saving Work in Christ 4 Life in the spirit Part two The synoptic gospels and Acts 5 The gospel of Mark 6 The gospel of Matthew 7 The gospel of Luke and Acts: the doctrine of God 8 The gospel of Luke and Acts: the doctrine ...
... Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:9). Paradoxically, the removal of that wrath is God's own doing (cf. Ps. 78:38, “Many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath” KJV). To find the paradox difficult or even to ...
... Lord's anointed” (1 Sam. 16:6; 2 Sam. 1:14). We also read of priests being anointed (Exod. 30:30; Lev. 4:5), and, though less often, prophets (1 Kings 19:16). In each case the action signified that the person in question was solemnly ...
... Lord” would be very significant).2 To accept this view is not to be oblivious of the fact that Paul sometimes does ... Lord,” the order is normally the other way around; he says “our Lord Jesus Christ” more often (54 times) than “Christ ...
... Lord” as a way of referring to God (a usage we see in the KJV and several modern versions, where LORD [in capitals and small capitals] is the normal way of translating “Yahweh”).7 Paul calls Jesus “God's Son” 4 times, and another 13 ...
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 | |