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Unity and Diversity in the New Testament is a thorough investigation of the canon of the New Testament and Christianity’s origins. It assumes the reader is familiar with the basic issues of date, authorship, and occasion of the books, looking in detail at the various emphases in the gospel proclaimed by Jesus, Luke, Paul, and John. It also examines primitive Christianity’s preaching and teaching,...

proclaimed Jesus; Jesus called for repentance and faith with respect to the kingdom, the first Christians called for faith in Jesus; Jesus held out the offer of God’s forgiveness and acceptance, the first Christians held out a similar offer but as mediated through Jesus. Quite clearly Jesus stands at the centre of the post-Easter kerygma in a manner which is not really paralleled in Jesus’ own kerygma. So far, of course, we have only made the comparison at the level of public proclamation, in terms
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