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In Reading the Gospels Wisely, Jonathan Pennington examines the theological and ethical aims of the Gospel narratives, helping students see the fruit of historical and literary study. He contends that we can learn to read the Gospels well from various vantage points, among them the premodern, modern, and postmodern. This textbook can stand on its own as a guide to reading the Gospels as...

might want to begin “New Testament theology” with Galatians or 1 Thessalonians. My point, however, is that one cannot understand Galatians or Thessalonians or any of the apostolic witness without recognizing that they come to us in the historical and theological context of the Jesus traditions, which were already disseminated throughout the church. It is the teaching and life of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels that formed the entire mind-set and framework for what the New Testament authors preached
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