Exegese en Bijbelse theologie staat minder los van het culturele klimaat waarin men verkeert dan menig Bijbelwetenschapper haar wil hebben. Dat betekent niet dat de Bijbel geen vaste boodschap en betekenis heeft. Integendeel, hoe meer men eigen uitgangspunten en uitgangssituatie bewust onderkent, des te meer zal men in staat zijn die vaste betekenis recht te [...]
Categorie: Theology New Testament
A Theology of the New Testament by Udo Schnelle
The study of Udo Schnelle, originally written in German and translated in English, has its own defects and shortcomings, but Schnelle makes clear that in the New Testament faith is seen as a gift of God. Faith completely rest on God’s grace and that is the reason that the fountain of faith is personal election. [...]
Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and understood in the light of the Church
Douglas F. Kelly is an American theologian. He was brought up in the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the old Southern Presbyterian Church. When the Presbyterian Church in America in 1975 was formed, he joined this denomination. The invading of liberalism in the Southern Presby-terian Church, of which the acceptation of women in office [...]
Judgment according to Works in Romans
How must we understand what Paul writes in his letter about judgment according to work? How can we relate that to his message of justification by faith and not by the works of the law? In the last century several monographs were devoted to this subject. In the former century in New Testament scholarship a [...]
John’s Use of Ezekiel
It is widely accepted that the influence of Ezekiel can be detected in the Fourth Gospel. Without doubt, the background to the discourse of Jesus on the Good Shepherd is Ezek 34. Brian Neil Peterson has done a great job in arguing that several features of John’s Gospel can be explained when we realize that [...]
Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism
Through a nontechnical collection of short essays in Reading Romans in Context: Paul and Second Temple Judaism the message of Paul in his epistle to the Romans is set against the background to texts of the Second Temple period. Each of the authors is an expert in the field he or she treats. Each chapter pairs a [...]
A Review of Two Theologies of the New Testament
Introduction When Christian people hear about biblical theology, most of them understand this expression to mean theology that has the Bible as its ultimate standard and source. In this sense all theology ought to be biblical. In theology as an academic discipline, biblical theology has a somewhat different meaning. In theology as an academic discipline [...]
Devoted to God
In a series of chapters full of Biblical teaching and then especially the teaching of the New Testament Sinclair B. Ferguson, former professor of systematic theology at Westminster Theo-logical Seminary and former minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, unfolds what he calls blueprints for sanctification. He emphasizes the primary meaning of to be [...]
Two Testaments, One Bible: The Theological Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments
The relevance and meaning of the Old Testament and its relation to the New Testament is the most important question in the field of hermeneutics. The answers we give to this question, deter-mines the character of our faith. Do we think that we can build our faith only on the New Testament or are we [...]
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