Category: Interpreting The New Testament
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9 Reasons We Need The Gospels
If you remember, I used my Westminster gift certificate to order Jonathan Pennington’s Reading The Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction (along with these others). In chapter 3, “Why Do We Need The Gospels? (or Why Saint Paul Is Not Enough)” Pennington gives us 9 reasons we need the Gospel narratives (38-48): They have been…
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Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours
Robert L. Plummer & John Mark Terry eds., Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, January, 2013. 252 pp. Paperback, $22.00. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to IVP Academic for the review copy! Just over 100 years ago, Roland Allen wrote a book called Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? Though it took a few…
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6 Big Books I’m Plodding Through This Year
I learned my lesson from last year. Instead of 13 books I’m planning to read through, here are 6 books on the larger side that I’m “plodding” through: Foundations of Soul Care: A Christian Psychology Proposal by Eric L. Johnson A Puritan Theology and Meet the Puritans Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith…
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A Flexible Bible Reading Plan for 2013
With the all the potential reading plans you could adopt in 2013, the most important thing is to have a good Bible reading plan in place. I’ve seen several options present themselves. As usual, Justin Taylor’s is the most comprehensive and includes several different options. For an intriguing approach that utilizes listening and reading, see Joseph…
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Devotions On The Greek New Testament
J. Scott Duvall & Verlyn Verbrugge have done Bible geeks everywhere a favor. They managed to get scholars like Scot McKnight, Craig Blomberg, Bill Mounce, Darrell Bock, Ben Witherington III, Mark Strauss, Constantine Campbell, and several others to write devotionals on 52 short passages from the Greek New Testament. Not just that, but these devotionals…
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The Man Jesus Christ: Theological Reflections on The Humanity of Christ
Bruce Ware, The Man Jesus Christ: Theological Reflections on The Humanity of Christ. Wheaton: Crossway, November, 2012. 160 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the electronic review copy! Bruce Ware is professor of Christian theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Though I’m really familiar with his name, this is actually the first book I’ve…
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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…
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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…
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Prepositions and Theology In The Greek New Testament
Murray J. Harris is professor emeritus of New Testament exegesis and Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Before that, he was Warden of Tyndale House, which if you didn’t know (and it’s ok if you didn’t) is a biblical research library in Cambridge, England (I think they need an Orlando extension campus). Despite all that,…
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Pauline Theology Vs. A Theology of Paul
Last week, Eerdmans was kind enough to send along Frank J. Matera’s God’s Saving Grace: A Pauline Theology. Usually when I get a book in the mail, I try to sit down and work through the introduction right off the bat. If it just immediately catches my attention (more so than it already did to…