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Mar 03 2010
Witherington’s latest work is an 800 page masterpiece. In order to help me keep track of my thoughts on this book, and in part to showcase more of the book than a review, I am posting ‘reflections’ on each chapter.
Continue reading “Reflection: The Indelible Image – Paul The Paradigm Setter”
Feb 17 2010
I had to order the book, after reading this explanation of the Ephesians Road:
Wax’s Ephesians Road is simple and effective (though note I will discuss a complexity about it afterward):
- Salvation is about God’s plan for the world (Ephesians 1), including election, adoption, and uniting all things in Messiah. Wax says it’s not so much that God has a wonderful plan for your life, but that God has a wonderful plan.
- Salvation is only by unearned favor (Ephesians 2:1-9), raising us from the dead and saving us from God’s wrath. Wax says we weren’t rescued while drowning, we were already dead and God made us alive.
- Salvation comes with a calling that must be fulfilled in the community of faith (Ephesians 2:10-22), including good works, kingdom community, and imaging God to the world.
Whereas the Romans Road says, “You can be forgiven and live forever,” the Ephesians Road says, “God is making a perfected cosmos and you can join in.”
via Trevin Wax’s Ephesians Road Expanded « Messianic Jewish Musings.
Is there really a divergence? Since I haven’t read the book to know the basic arguments, I can only say that from this point, while the ‘Romans Road’ seems to be individualistic, the ‘Ephesians Road’ seems to be communal. In other words, God offers salvation individually, but through the community it is achieved. Such as in Acts 2.36-40 in which when the people were saved, they were added to the Church.
Should be an interesting book, as it has already started the wheels turning.
Oct 15 2009
Ran across this piece the other day -
Continue reading “Will the New Perspectives on Paul unite Christianity and Judaism”
Oct 06 2009
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From Amazon,
Product Description
In this third volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, James D.G. Dunn ranges widely across the literature of the New Testament to describe the essential elements of the early church’s belief and practice. Eschatology, grace, law and gospel, discipleship, Israel and the church, faith and works, and most especially incarnation, atonement, and resurrection; Dunn places these and other themes in conversation with the contemporary church’s work of understanding its faith and life in relation to God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ.Product Details
- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Abingdon Press (May 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0687341205
- ISBN-13: 978-0687341207
Continue reading “Review: New Testament Theology, An Introduction”
Sep 25 2009
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I am currently reading Dunn’s work (hope to post a review on Monday), so when I came across this video, I thought it was interesting. Thanks to Euangelion for the tip.
Publisher’s Description: In this third volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, James D.G. Dunn ranges widely across the literature of the New Testament to describe the essential elements of the early church’s belief and practice. Eschatology, grace, law and gospel, discipleship, Israel and the church, faith and works, and most especially incarnation, atonement, and resurrection; Dunn places these and other themes in conversation with the contemporary church’s work of understanding its faith and life in relation to God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ.
Continue reading “Bishop N.T. Wright and James Dunn on the New Perspective of Paul”
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