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The Present Position of New Testament Theology: Retrospect and Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

H. G. Wood
Affiliation:
Birmingham

Extract

New Testament theology is admittedly the most important and the most difficult of New Testament studies. All our other disciplines—textual criticism, the study of the grammar, idiom and vocabulary of Hellenistic Greek, the examination of the literary and historical problems which the literature of the New Testament presents—all derive their interest from their bearing on New Testament theology.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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