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The Heartbeat of Old Testament Theology: Three Creedal Expressions is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume explores the theological heartbeat of the Old Testament by examining three big ideas that communicate the Old Testament’s redemptive theology. Highly respected scholar Mark Boda shows how three creedal expressions—the narrative, character, and relational creeds—recur throughout the Old Testament and express its core redemptive theology, in turn revealing how the redemptive pulse of...

To this point I have identified three rhythms within the heartbeat of OT theology, each of which unpacks the basic self-declaration of God in the OT and its echoes in the NT: “I am Yahweh.”1 One focuses on Yahweh’s historical action, a second on Yahweh’s active character, and a third on Yahweh’s relational identity. Of course, these do not exhaust OT theology any more than the Apostles’ Creed (or any creed) is able to exhaust Christian theology, but they are core
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