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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... Gospels,” “The Faith of the Primitive Community,” etc.). In any case he disenfranchises most of the writers. It cannot be said that Kümmel deals with the theology “of the New Testament.” A similar comment can Introduction.
... faith, doctrine, hope, etc.”20 I share Wrede's desire for information about what was believed and thought and so on (though I do not see how that desire is to be gratified without some startling new source of information), but I ...
... faith and hope and love, with sin and salvation, with life here and now, with our hopes for the hereafter, and above all with God and with what God has done in Christ.23 The approach that insists on a close historical study of the way ...
... faith”) and a resulting life of service—service to their God and and service to other people. A good deal depends on what we are looking for. In bringing out his thought of unity in the diversity of the New Testament, A. M. Hunter draws ...
... faith; they did not emerge from some wilderness, barren of religious convictions. They were all shaped by their contact with Christ, but also to some extent by the community to which they belonged. What they wrote is Christian teaching ...
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 | |