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New Testament Theology: An Introduction (Library of Biblical Theology) Kindle Edition

by James D. G. Dunn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In this volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, James D.G. Dunn ranges widely across the literature of the New Testament to describe the essential elements of the early church’s belief and practice. Eschatology, grace, law and gospel, discipleship, Israel and the church, faith and works, and most especially incarnation, atonement, and resurrection; Dunn places these and other themes in conversation with the contemporary church’s work of understanding its faith and life in relation to God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ.

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James D.G. Dunn is Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity University of Durham, England.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0055PNGE2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abingdon Press (September 1, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 927 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
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V. H. Hammontree
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Very Best
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2012
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Dr. Dunn does a masterful job of putting together to New Testament theologies. He gives every indication of proficiency in New Testament language and culture. He makes the experience of reading his book one of the best since Joachim Jeremias.
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JLP
1.0 out of 5 stars Kindle format jacked!
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2018
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The book itself is probably excellent, but it would seem I'm going to have to get a hard copy to read it. The kindle version is absolutely a mess! This review will stay up unless and until it is fixed.

For instance, here's the first sentence of Ch. 1. "Biblical theology as a distinct discipline is usually traced back to the of J. P. Gabler published in 1787." Missing word, first sentence. It gets worse from there. "But prior was more a matter of the Bible in the service of systematic or theology than of a biblical theology as now understood. It was initiated the distinction and separation of biblical theology theology and promoted the understanding of biblical theology historical exercise to determine what were the theologies (not of the biblical writers. Since then the discipline of biblical would too easily sideline the question whether Jesus ought one of their own prophets (or rabbis, or messiah?)."

What? If this is a fixable problem on my end, someone feel free to let me know, and I'll address it. Otherwise I must assume it's a messed up kindle book. Order the hard copy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015
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This was recommended to me by my PhD supervisor to discuss the dating of matthew.
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J D Marshall
2.0 out of 5 stars THOROUGHLY LIBERAL IDEAS
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2015
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This book will be a great disappointment to anyone with a high view of scripture (i.e. scripture's ultimate source is from God). In the high view of scripture, inspiration means recognizing it is God-exhaled. To put it another way, God superintended the writing in such a way that every word in the original manuscripts is exactly what God wanted. This is done in a way that also is not simply a man taking dictation. Scripture is not treated as such by Dunn or any other theological liberal.

Dunn is honest about his low view of scripture; that it is simply a product of the men who wrote it, who all spun what they wrote because they all had their own agenda. The Bible's "inspiration" is therefore no different than Shakespear or Keats being inspired. For Dunn, our work of "theologizing" is an ongoing process of screening and sifting scripture using "historical criticism" to decide what was really said (Bible alone is not a reliable witness) then determining what the authors were trying to say. Dunn and others with a low view of scripture believe the Bible is simply a document of human origin containing: historical inaccuracies, scientific misstatements, internal contradictions, and religious opinion attributed solely to the speaker. Those holding this view will find this book intellectually stimulating and challenging.

Dunn (along with NT Wright) are perhaps best known today for their support of Sanders' liberal (and soteriologically scandalous) concept called the New Perspective on Paul.
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Joel L. Watts
5.0 out of 5 stars Introduction is an Understatement
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2009
Dunn's work is not meant to be a systematic theology, but more of a primer, an introduction, not just to New Testament Theology, but in many ways, the theology of the New Perspective on Paul. His goal is not to present a complete theological assessment of the New Testament, not to move people to continue theologizing the theo-logy (his words.) In doing so, he focuses on three segments of doctrinal beliefs - The Theology of God, Theology of Salvation, and The Church of God. He rounds out these center pieces with an deep introduction, factors which determine the theology of the New Testament, and the ethical outworkings of his theologies.

For Dunn, theology is theo-logy,

Theology is first and foremost theo-logy. This is not simply because the term theology means in the first instance, "talk about God." ...

It is rather because God is the basic presupposition in all they say, the axiom on which all propositions, teachings, and exhortations depend, the foundation on which everything else is built, the first principle from which everything follows.

Dunn masterfully keeps the 'basic presupposition' throughout the book, and while he does briefly touch on historical criticism, he does not deviate from the essential idea that Christianity's nucleus is and has always been the teachings of and about Christ.

His supporting material - Selected Bibliography, his more than 40 pages of notes and supplemental materials, and his index of Scriptures secures a sound foundation for his theology. While you may find disagreement, Dunn has provided his bulwark of support which must first be surmounted. While he notes that the 'NT biblical theologian is bound to the NT canon...simply because the canon demonstrates the power inherent in the documents concerned...' he does allow that the NT writings, and the theology of the canon was established in light of the LXX and the Deuterocanon. A brief glance of his siting of Scripture, as he quotes the Deuteroncanon, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo and other Jewish literature from this time period, and other valuable documents which aid in our understanding of the New Testament.

A key feature of Dunn's writing, which is style more than anything, is his use of italics to off set key points in his section. This is helpful in following along, as well as referring and summing the section up.

While the book is clearly a New Testament theology, he does not leave the Old Testament out, but true to the New Perspective of Paul, shows that the theology (or theologies as he so rightly puts it) is not a complete break with the Old Testament, but a continuation, albeit through Christ, of the themes of the Hebrew bible. In each of the three Theological chapters, he has a section on Inherited Theology - on how we got here from here.

He concludes this brief but powerful work with the charge,

And NT theology/theologizing is not to be seen as simply something we observe and describe, but rather as something we do.

He is most correct when he says that NT theology was not written by the NT writers, but by us.

For those who want a primer on the theology associated with the New Perspectives on Paul with supreme respect to the inherited tradition, and respect both to biblical criticism and the Christianity, this is a book which I believe will deliver. He is geared to the lay-person, who will find little in the basic presuppositions to disagree with, and who want a richer understanding of the continuing theology from the Old Testament through to the New.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018
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Good book... I didn't use it, tho... I got another one as a gift
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1.0 out of 5 stars Kindle version filled with mistakes
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2016
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The Kindle edition has so many mistakes it is very hard to read. I had written Amazon's customer support about this before buying the book because others said the same thing, and I was told that everything had been fixed. This is not true.
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Carrie Miller
2.0 out of 5 stars Kindle version almost unreadable!
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2023
I wish I would have read the reviews about the kindle version before I bought this for required reading for a NT theology class. There are portions that are completely incoherent. Don’t waste your money on the Kindle version.
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