Book contents
- Biblical Theology
- Biblical Theology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 A Method to the Madness
- 2 The God of the Burning Bush
- 3 The God of Golgotha
- 4 The God of the Burning Heart
- 5 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part One
- 6 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part Two
- 7 The Passion Play and its Sequels without Equal
- 8 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Fall and before the Incarnation
- 9 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Incarnation and before Pentecost
- 10 New Covenanting in the Eschatological Age of the Spirit
- 11 The Election Results
- 12 Where the Reformation Went Wrong
- 13 Faith in the Final Future: The New Creation
- 14 The Threefold Cord: Theology, Ethics, and Praxis
- 15 And So? A Cautionary Conclusion
- Book part
- Annotated Bibliography
- Author Index
- Ancient Source and Scripture Index
1 - A Method to the Madness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
- Biblical Theology
- Biblical Theology
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Text
- Introduction
- 1 A Method to the Madness
- 2 The God of the Burning Bush
- 3 The God of Golgotha
- 4 The God of the Burning Heart
- 5 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part One
- 6 The Stars Align in Constellations: The Storied World of the Bible. Part Two
- 7 The Passion Play and its Sequels without Equal
- 8 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Fall and before the Incarnation
- 9 Covenanting and Theologizing after the Incarnation and before Pentecost
- 10 New Covenanting in the Eschatological Age of the Spirit
- 11 The Election Results
- 12 Where the Reformation Went Wrong
- 13 Faith in the Final Future: The New Creation
- 14 The Threefold Cord: Theology, Ethics, and Praxis
- 15 And So? A Cautionary Conclusion
- Book part
- Annotated Bibliography
- Author Index
- Ancient Source and Scripture Index
Summary
That biblical theology is a complicated matter is shown by the fact that J. K. Mead’s textbook was the first attempt in some 30 years to try and define and refine the category in meaningful ways. At the outset, one has first to decide what counts as “the Bible.” For persons of Jewish faith, a perfectly good “biblical theology” can be done simply by studying and analyzing what Christians call “the Old Testament,” though ironically when asked about the Christian enterprise called biblical theology, some Jewish scholars say they are simply not interested in the subject.
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- Biblical TheologyThe Convergence of the Canon, pp. 6 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019