Drawing on decades of close study, esteemed scholar John Goldingay offers an expansive, refreshing biblical theology that does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture to speak for itself, in all its diversity. The result is a rich and manifold witness to the ways of...
Drawing on decades of close study, esteemed scholar John Goldingay offers an expansive, refreshing biblical theology that does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture to speak for itself, in all its diversity. The result is a rich and manifold witness to the ways of God!
Imagine someone who has spent a lifetime listening deeply and attentively to the full range of Scripture's testimony. Stepping back, they now describe what they have seen and heard. What emerges is a theological cathedral, laid out on the great vectors of Scripture and fitted with biblically sourced materials.This is what John Goldingay has done. Well known for his three-volume *Old Testament Theology*, he has now risen to the challenge of a biblical theology. While taking the New Testament as a portal into the biblical canon, he seeks to preserve the distinct voices of Israel's Scriptures, accepting even its irregular and sinewed pieces as features rather than problems. Goldingay does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture's diversity and tensions to remain as manifold witnesses to the ways of God. While many interpreters interrogate Scripture under the harsh lights of late-modern questions, Goldingay engages in a dialogue keen on letting Scripture speak to us in its own voice. Throughout he asks, "What understanding of God and the world and life emerges from these two testaments?"Goldingay's *Biblical Theology* is a landmark achievement-hermeneutically dexterous, biblically expansive, and nourishing to mind, soul and proclamation.
Drawing on decades of close study, esteemed scholar John Goldingay offers an expansive, refreshing biblical theology that does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture to speak for itself, in all its diversity. The result is a rich and manifold witness to the ways of...
Drawing on decades of close study, esteemed scholar John Goldingay offers an expansive, refreshing biblical theology that does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture to speak for itself, in all its diversity. The result is a rich and manifold witness to the ways of God!
Imagine someone who has spent a lifetime listening deeply and attentively to the full range of Scripture's testimony. Stepping back, they now describe what they have seen and heard. What emerges is a theological cathedral, laid out on the great vectors of Scripture and fitted with biblically sourced materials.This is what John Goldingay has done. Well known for his three-volume *Old Testament Theology*, he has now risen to the challenge of a biblical theology. While taking the New Testament as a portal into the biblical canon, he seeks to preserve the distinct voices of Israel's Scriptures, accepting even its irregular and sinewed pieces as features rather than problems. Goldingay does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture's diversity and tensions to remain as manifold witnesses to the ways of God. While many interpreters interrogate Scripture under the harsh lights of late-modern questions, Goldingay engages in a dialogue keen on letting Scripture speak to us in its own voice. Throughout he asks, "What understanding of God and the world and life emerges from these two testaments?"Goldingay's *Biblical Theology* is a landmark achievement-hermeneutically dexterous, biblically expansive, and nourishing to mind, soul and proclamation.
Biblical Theology: The God of the Christian Scriptures$84.99
I find often in studies of Biblical theology the author is more concerned with presenting study on a biblical theme's such as death, mission, land, etc. . Thus I find this book of significant importance and incredibly refreshing. For John Goldingay sets out to show us who the God of the bible is by taking the whole biblical canon into account when looking at the topic of God and allowing the scriptures to speak for themselves.
The whole book is focused on God, God's Person, God's Insight, God's Creation, God's Reign, and more. Why I see this is significant is that it gets us to thinking, talking and praising God, training us to return to God whenever we are doing theology, for it is God our hearts, souls and minds should truly long for.
