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  • Kingdom Through Covenant: A Review

    Authors Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum are professor of Old Testament Interpretation and Christian theology respectively, at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In tag team sort of affair, Wellum authored parts 1 and 3 of the Kingdom Through Covenant, while Gentry filled in the gap by authoring part 2. While they speak with…

  • Paul and Union With Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study

    Constantine R. Campbell is a senior lecturer in Greek and New Testament at Moore Theological College. He brings a very strong Greek background to this study of Paul as you can see from his previous publications (like Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative (Studies in Biblical Greek) and Verbal Aspect and Non-Indicative Verbs (Studies in Biblical Greek) as…

  • Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

    G. K. Beale is the kind of guy who reads books while brushing his teeth. In fact, he read The Resurrection of The Son of God a few pages a day this way. In some ways, that’s about all you need to know about the kind of scholar Beale is. “Meticulous” sounds petty, but Beale is that…

  • Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice

    Edward Klink & Darian Lockett, Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, November, 2012. 192 pp. Paperback, $17.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! After I posted the list of upcoming books to review, the first vote I got was for a review of Edward Klink and…

  • Christ and The Desert Tabernacle

    Earlier this school year, I was teaching Exodus to two classes of 9th grade students. Because of time, we didn’t linger too long on the later half of the book, but instead focused most of our attention on the plagues, the red sea crossing, and 10 commandments. When I teach it again next year (if,…

  • The New Testament’s Use of The Old

    In other words, we must carefully allow the New Testament to show us how the Old Testament is brought to fulfillment in Christ. In this way, as Beale rightly acknowledges, the New Testament’s interpretation of the Old Testament may expand the Old Testament author’s meaning in the sense of seeing new implications and applications. However,…

  • Israel and The Church In Covenant Theology

    In this way, within covenant theology, “Israel-church” are so linked that it becomes hard not to say that the only major difference between the old and new covenant people of God is that the New Testament “church” is a racially mixed and non-national Israel, and that the “church” is a more knowledgeable version of the…

  • What’s Progressive About Dispensationalism

    The term “progressive” is used by its advocates in the progressive revelation sense, i. e., to underscore the unfolding nature of God’s plan and the successive (not different) arrangements of the various dispensations as they ultimately culminate in Christ. In this way, progressive dispensationalists stress the continuity of God’s plan across redemptive-history, and in this…

  • 5 Kinds of Biblical Theology

    Last week, I told you about Graeme Goldsworthy’s Christ-Centered Biblical Theology. Over this past week though, I’ve been reading more on the subject and have dove into Edward Klink and Darian Lockett’s Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice. You can look forward to a full review early next month, but in the…

  • Stephen Wellum on How People Put Together The Bible

    Within evangelical theology, dispensational and covenant theology largely frame how people “put together” their Bible and, as such, function as dominant theological viewpoints. Each “system” serves as an interpretive grid for understanding the story line of Scripture and thus functions as “whole-bible theologies” (i.e. biblical theologies) which lead to systematic theological conclusions. In this way,…