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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... 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 the New Testament writings ...
... sins,” and he did this “according to the will of our God and Father” (Gal. 1:4),6 a thought that Paul repeats in a variety of ways. Thus there is made known “through the church, the manifold wisdom of God according to the eternal ...
... sin [or one man] issuing in condemnation” (Rom. 5:16). It matters little whether we read “one sin” or “one man,” for both Adam and his sin are in mind. That sin resulted in a condemnation that affects the whole human race. Paul sees God ...
... sin brings its own fearful consequences, he declares instead that “God gave them up” to those consequences (Rom. 1:24, 26, 28). What is this but the wrath of God in action? Indeed, Paul implies as much by including the words in the ...
... sin on our behalf' the Christ who “knew no sin” (2 Cor. 5:21). The thought that salvation is by grace runs through the New Testament, and this grace is “the grace of God” (Rom. 5:15; 1 Cor. 1:4; 3:10; 15:10; 2 Cor. 1:12; 6:1; 8:1; 9:14 ...
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 | |