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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... righteousness in the law, blameless” (Phil. 3:46). His manner of life accorded with his deep conviction that the way to God was not that of obedience to the law, yet on occasion his practice could be Judaic; for example, Luke tells us ...
... righteousness is “the righteousness of God” and accordingly do what is quite wrong; they may try to establish their own righteousness (Rom. 10:3). There are those who use the Word of God for their own profit (2 Cor. 2:17) or handle it ...
... righteous judgment” (Rom. 2:5; 2 Thess. 1:56), with a judgment according to truth (Rom. 2:2). Those who love law are warned that hearing the law is not enough; to be just before God means obeying the law (Rom. 2:13). This seems to be a ...
... righteousness to denote an ethical virtue, as the Greeks did. But the Hebrews saw the term as pointing to a legal standing, as can be seen, for example, from the woe pronounced on those who “take away the righteousness of the righteous ...
... righteousness will never fail” (Isa. 51:6) and when the psalmist writes, “The Lord has made his salvation known and revealed his righteousness to the nations” (Ps. 98:2). God will not forsake his people. It is right that he should ...
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 | |