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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... Paul” and “The Theology of the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles,” but his other major divisions are “Presuppositions and Motifs of New Testament Theology” (in which he includes the chapters “The Message of Jesus,” “The Kerygma ...
... Paul complained of “another gospel—that is not another” (Gal. 1:6—7), and through all the centuries the church has ... Paul could speak of “a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17), which Acts shows plainly had happened in Paul's own case (Acts ...
... Paul's grasp of the Greek language that all the treasures of Greek literature were open to him, but in all his writings he quotes from a Greek author only twice (1 Cor. 15:33; Titus 1:12; Luke tells of another quotation, this one in a ...
Leon Morris. in a sermon, Acts 17:28). Paul's interest was in the Old Testament; he quotes from it constantly, and, interestingly, he quotes mostly from the Sepruagint (Greek) rather than from the Hebrew. Paul identified with Israel ...
... Paul's writings. So does the apostle's literary style. He rushes on, often leaving out words he expected his readers to supply (and which they hope they are supplying correctly!). He is an original thinker, sometimes struggling with ...
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 | |