The Work of Jesus the Messiah through the Millennia
Gerald R. McDermott
a division of Baker Publishing Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McDermott, Gerald R. (Gerald Robert), author.
Title: A new history of redemption : the work of Jesus the Messiah through the millennia / Gerald R. McDermott.
Description: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2024] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023029023 | ISBN 9780801098543 (cloth) | ISBN 9781493444434 (ebook) | ISBN 9781493444441 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Redemption—Christianity—History of doctrines. | Jesus Christ—Person and offices—Biblical teaching.
Classification: LCC BT775 .M34 2024 | DDC 234/.3—dc23/eng/20230821
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023029023
Unless otherwise noted, Scripture translations are the author’s own.
Scripture quotations labeled ESV are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2016
Scripture quotations labeled KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.
To my beloved wife, Jean,
whose love and support during these years of writing
have brought a new beauty to our union
Part One: From Eternity to the Dispersal of the Nations
2. Redemption Planned from Eternity
4. The Spirit and Messiah from Enosh and Enoch to Noah and the Nations
Part Two: From Abraham to Moses
Part Three: From Moses to the Incarnation
8. From the Captivity to the Messiah
9. The Authority of the Tanach
Part Five: From Christ’s Resurrection to the End of the World
18. Dogma and Theology in the Third and Fourth Centuries
19. Political Disintegration and Missionary Expansion
20. The Iconoclast Controversy
24. Reformation and Counter-Reformation
25. The Western Church since the Enlightenment
27. The Explosion of Pentecostalism
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About A New History of Redemption: The Work of Jesus the Messiah through the MillenniaTaking inspiration from Jonathan Edwards, a widely-respected evangelical theologian traces the redeeming work of the Messiah in the Bible and in church history up through the new heavens and earth. Although Jesus’s work of redemption is often viewed as a singular event, a careful examination of Scripture reveals that the Messiah began his redemptive work just after the fall and will continue it to the end of the world. In the spirit of Jonathan Edwards’s History of the Work of Redemption, distinguished theologian Gerald McDermott traces the progress of redemption throughout the Bible and church history. This book connects the dots surrounding Israel, redemption by the Jewish Messiah, secular and sacred history, the world religions, and Jewish-Christian worship through liturgy and sacraments. It shows how Jesus as Messiah was redeeming throughout Old Testament history, and it carries that story up through the last two millennia. McDermott contends that it is only through a historical examination of the Messiah’s redemption amid the turmoil of the world and the worship of his people that one can best see God’s beauty. |
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