New Testament theology
This is a new and masterly presentation of New Testament theology by one of the leading religious scholars of this century. It takes the unique step of setting up an imaginary dialogue on the central concepts of the Christian faith between the various authors of the New Testament themselves, thus capturing in a particularly fresh and lucid way the differing approaches and attempts of these first Christians to explore and elucidate their faith
Print Book, English, 1995, ©1994
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, Oxford, 1995, ©1994
xix, 498 pages ; 22 cm
9780198263883, 9780198266600, 0198263880, 019826660X
34022502
1. Introduction: The apostolic conference
What is New Testament theology?
Approaches to writing a New Testament theology
2. The divine plan
The whole counsel of God
The coming of God
The plan of salvation
Israel and the world
According to the scriptures
The obedience of Christ
The opening of the scriptures
A people prepared
3. The need of salvation
The universality of sin
The universality of judgement
The experience of sin
The essence of sin
The threefold Adam
The sin of the world
Principalities and powers
Satan
The Antichrist
The unforgivable sin
4. The three tenses of salvation
The triple pattern
Christian progress
The presence of the transcendent
The kingdom of God
5. The fact of salvation
The one and the many
Revelation
Atonement
6. The experience of salvation
Newness of life
Worship
The sovereignty of grace
The imitation of Christ
In Christ and the Spirit
In the church
7. The hope of salvation
'Because I live, you too shall life'
The meaning of 'eschatology'
The Parousia and its imminence
Individual eschatology
Historical eschatology
8. The bringer of salvation
Beginning at the beginning
Developing from the beginning
The qualifications of Jesus
9. The theology of Jesus
Four cardinal errors
The birth of Christian theology
The gathering storm
The kingdom of God
The Son of man
The law
The nations
Sonship
Death
10. Summary and conclusions: Jesus and the apostolic conference
11. Epilogue: Dialogue, meaning, and authority