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The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the central theme of the Bible? Given the diversity of authorship, genre, and context of the Bible’s various books, is it even possible to answer such a question? Or in trying to do so, is an external grid being unnaturally superimposed on the biblical text? These are difficult questions that the discipline of biblical theology has struggled to answer. In this thoroughly revised and...

is the proclamation of the kingdom and its anointed king. But it is on the basis of the divine promise that its preachers proclaim the kingdom, and when they appeal to the Old Testament in proof of Christian doctrine, they make the promise more prominent than the kingdom itself.”8 In this connection, the promise carries with it eschatological teachings as well. They affirm the coming of the Lord along with the doctrine of the resurrection. For instance, 2 Peter 3:10 warned: “The Lord is not slow
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