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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... kingdom of God”; in Paul, “being in Christ”; and in John, “the Logos becoming incarnate.” He proceeds, “Now isolate each of these phrases, and observe what is likely to happen. Your study of the Kingdom of God may take you back through ...
... Kingdom of God has come upon you' (Luke x.9) and Paul 'If any man is in Christ, there is a new creation' (2 Cor. v. 17) and John 'The Logos became flesh and dwelt among us' (John i. 14), they were not making utterly different and ...
... kingdom of God, is some distance removed from the preaching of the early church with its emphasis on the death and resurrection of Jesus. Nothing in the Epistles leads us to think that the first Christians made any attempt simply to ...
... kingdom of God.” This is not Paul's favorite topic, but it does occur in his writings. He says that this kingdom is not a matter of food and drink, but that it is concerned rather with righteousness and the like (Rom. 14:17; cf. 1 Cor ...
... kingdom” terminology, Paul is strongly conscious of the fact that God is sovereign in all of life. He often calls God to witness that what he is saying is true (e.g., Gal. 1:20; Phil. 1:8; 1 Thess. 2:5, 10; 2 Tim. 4:1). He appeals to ...
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 | |