An Introductory Biblical Theology
Binding: PaperbackPage Count: 251Publisher: InterVarsity PressISBN# : 9780830826964Availability: Usually ships the same business day.
Description : The massive diversity and complexity of the Bible can make it a daunting project for anyone to tackle. Getting a grasp on the unity of the Bible, its central message from Genesis to Revelation, helps immensely in understanding the meaning of any one book or passage. Thatis the goal of this book by Graeme Goldsworthy.
How do the Old and New Testaments fit together?
What is the point of biblical theology?
What is the overall story of the Bible?
What difference does it make
Goldsworthy answers these questions with an integrated theology of both Old and New Testaments that avoids unnecessary technicalities. Concise, pithy chapters featuring dozens of charts, highlighted summaries and study questions make According to Plan an enormously useful book for understanding how the Bible fits together as the unfolding story of God's plan for salvation. This guide is written for those who have not had any formal theological education. Provided you have a desire to know the Scriptures, even if you have only achieved a very basic knowledge so far, this book is designed for you. Of course, if you have been to Bible college or theological college this book could still be for you. I believe that many preachers, ministers, Scripture teachers, youth leaders and the like will benefit from studying the basics of biblical theology. So, this is a beginner’s guide in the sense that I have tried to introduce the subject without assuming much prior knowledge. I do assume, however, that you are a believer in Jesus Christ and that you have some basic understanding of what the Bible is all about.
Introduction: How to Use This Book - PDF
Chapter 1: The Leech Has Two Daughters - PDF
Chapter 4: Christ Has Made Him Known - PDF
Monergism Review :
As the subtitle indicates, Graeme Goldsworthy’s According to Plan is an introduction to the hermeneutical and theological (interpretive and doctrinal) discipline known as “biblical theology.” Over and against systematic theology, which approaches the Bible with a-temporal, whole-Bible questions such as “What is God?” or “How are people saved?”, biblical theology seeks both to approach and then apply canonical texts based upon their place in the historical unfolding of God’s covenantal revelation. Biblical theology is built upon the conviction that the Bible is essentially a story, or rather, that it is the story – one grand, sweeping and authoritative meta-narrative that serves to order and determine all the other individual and corporate narratives that crowd our daily lives. Though the Bible certainly contains propositional truth, it is not a textbook of the spiritual. It is rather the historical unfolding of God’s eternal plan to glorify himself and renew creation through the salvation of fallen, guilty people. Essential then to understanding any one part of the Bible is understanding how it relates to the rest the Bible. This relation is not merely doctrinal, it is redemptive historical.
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