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Central Themes in Biblical Theology: Mapping Unity in Diversity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Building on the gains of the historical-critical project and sensitized by its post-modern critique, scholars are now more willing to talk about the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, as a book from and for communities of believers. Against this backdrop, editors Scott Hafemann and Paul House bring together a team of scholars willing to work together on “whole Bible biblical theology.” Fully...

provides not only the content but also the context for understanding the revelation-in-relationship and the history-of-redemption within which the biblical narrative and theology unfold.8 Brevard Childs is right: a scripturally interpreted Heilsgeschichte and the notion of the covenant are the two key categories for constructing a biblical theology.9 This does not mean that the ‘covenant relationship’ is the one, central theme of the Bible. The attempt to isolate such a theme has proved to be too
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