New Testament TheologyClarendon Press, 1995 - 498 pages Generations of students have known G.B. Caird as a penetrating and lucid guide to the many questions and problems posed by modern biblical study. His brillant commentaries on St Luke, the Book of Revelation, and St Paul's Prison Epistles, as well as his other studies on theology and the Bible, have won for him a place among the twentieth century's foremost biblical scholars. This new and masterly presentation of New Testament theology, completed and edited since the author's death by Professor L.D. Hurst, takes the unique step of setting up an imaginary debate amongst the various authors of the New Testament themselves. As central concepts (predestination, sin, atonement, the church, sacrament, ethics, eschatology, and christology) are `discussed' between such figures as Luke, Paul, John, and the author of Hebrews, the work moves to its climax with a presentation of the theology of Jesus himself. The result provides a particularly fresh and illuminating picture of the ideas at the heart of Christianity, deserving a place on the shelf of every serious pastor, theologian, and student of the Bible. |
Contents
THE DIVINE PLAN | 27 |
THE NEED OF SALVATION | 74 |
THE THREE TENSES OF SALVATION | 118 |
THE FACT OF SALVATION | 136 |
THE HOPE OF SALVATION | 238 |
THE BRINGER OF SALVATION | 279 |
THE THEOLOGY OF JESUS | 345 |
JESUS AND | 409 |
DIALOGUE MEANING | 420 |
The Writings of George Bradford Caird | 427 |
Index of Passages Cited | 451 |
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