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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... Roman citizen (Acts 16:37; 22:2528), in which capacity he made his wellknown appeal to Caesar (Acts 25:11). It accords with this citizenship that he urges the Romans to be subject to the governing authorities (Rom. 13:1—7) and says that ...
... Romans 11:29 in this way: “God never goes back upon his gifts and call.” Left to ourselves, we would never be certain that we had done what was necessary for our salvation. But we are not left to ourselves: God has predestined and ...
... Romans 8:28 as “he [i.e., God] works all things together for good...” or “all things work together...”14 But, however we translate it, the thought is that God brings good gifts to his people (“things” do not work together of themselves) ...
... Roman Christians on the basis of God's mercies (Rom. 12:1). Elsewhere he argues that it is “according to his mercy” that God saved us (Titus 3:5; cf. 1 Cor. 7:25; 2 Cor. 4:1; 1 Tim. 1:13, 16). He sees God's gifts and his call as ...
... Romans 1:183:20. The passage is introduced with the statement that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against every form of evil (Rom. 1:18), and the term wrath occurs three more times (2:5, 8; 3:5). In a passage where Paul could ...
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 | |