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Recovering the Unity of the Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Walter Kaiser makes the case for the unity of the Bible. The theological unity of the Bible celebrates the diversity of the Bible, but does so with the conviction that even though that unity can be tested historically, ethically, and otherwise, it has not detracted from the central case for the theological harmony that is found in the text. This has been the general conclusion of...

six constant elements, which usually, though not always, introduced what followed as the kerygma, the gospel or the word about: 1. God who 2. sent (Gospels) or raised 3. Jesus [which required] 4. a response (receiving, repentance, faith) 5. toward God [and] 6. brought benefits (variously described).31 Lemcio summarized his contention for a unifying core this way: In this spar[s]e statement (hardly more than a dozen words in many instances) lies the skeleton of every Christian conviction.… So far
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