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Biblical Interpretation Then and Now examines the use of the Bible in the early church and relates apostolic and patristic interpretation to contemporary trends in hermeneutics. Dockery traces the developments in early Christian interpretation, noting both continuities and discontinuities. His study begins with Jesus, and observes the developments in interpretation to the time of the historic...

that faith would be in demonstration of God’s power (cf. 1 Cor. 2:1–6). The apostles’ theology of preaching was built around the elements of the kerygma: the incarnation, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Christ. In this sense preaching in the context of the worshiping community reenacted the event of Christ, the event that provided shape and meaning not only to worship but to the lives of the worshipers.5 The church’s preaching understood the Old Testament Scripture in terms of Christ’s
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