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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... Testament in which he discusses a good deal of the New Testament. Two of his major sections are entitled “The Theology of ... writers. It cannot be said that Kümmel deals with the theology “of the New Testament.” A similar comment can ...
... Testament. The table of contents indicates that the treatment is in five ... Testament and surveys the contributions made by all the writers to each of his ... writers, but it will be implied in what they have said, for what they say ...
... Testament is part of the thinking of the early church, whether it goes back to Jesus himself or to one of his followers. The question inevitably arises concerning how far we are to repeat what the New Testament writers have said and how ...
... Testament writing was born with the predicate 'canonical' attached. The statement that a writing is canonical signifies in the first place only that it was pronounced canonical afterwards by the authorities of the second to ...
... Testament writers for religion. But as I see it, religion and theology go together, or should do so. Each is ... Testament writers see it, necessarily issues in right attitudes and right practices, and that toward both God and other ...
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 | |