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Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments: Theological Reflection on the Christian Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Childs’ lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the past generation. Childs rejects any approaches that overstress either the continuity or discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments. He refuses...

returned to its true function of being ‘holy, just, and good’. The Christian is admonished not to behave in ‘lawlessness’ (anomia), without the law (Rom. 2:14), but according to the law of Christ, which has always been the will of God (cf. Rom. 10:18 citing Ps. 19:4). One of the important theological contributions of W. Schrage, first in his dissertation (Die konkreten Einzelgebote, 1961), and then in his The Ethics of the New Testament, is his insistence that Pauline ethics has been consistently
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