Biblical Doctrine: An Overview
True Theology: Knowing and Loving God The study of theology is considered by many to be dry, boring, irrelevant, and complicated. But for those who… Read More »Biblical Doctrine: An Overview
True Theology: Knowing and Loving God The study of theology is considered by many to be dry, boring, irrelevant, and complicated. But for those who… Read More »Biblical Doctrine: An Overview
Introduction and Timeline Knowing how to read the Epistles is very important, since they make up 21 of the 27 books in the NT. Paul… Read More »Reading the Epistles
When it comes to describing “the theology of the Old Testament,” not everyone is convinced that there is a single theology represented in these diverse… Read More »The Theology of the Old Testament
Biblical Ethics: An Introduction From the beginning of the Bible to the end, God gives people specific instructions about how he wants them to conduct… Read More »Biblical Ethics: An Overview
A troubled jailer in the first century once asked two Christian leaders, “what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30). This in fact is… Read More »God’s Plan of Salvation
The Gospels and Acts were designed to be read as full accounts, each in their own right, even as they seek to tell about Jesus… Read More »Reading the Gospels and Acts
Scholars continue to debate the year and date of Jesus’ crucifixion. Several pieces of evidence, both inside and outside the Bible, help historians to calculate… Read More »The Date of Jesus’ Crucifixion
New Testament theology as a discipline is a branch of what scholars call “biblical theology.” Systematic theology and biblical theology overlap considerably, since both explore… Read More »The Theology of the New Testament
When Jesus began to proclaim the gospel, the Sadducees, Essenes, and Pharisees were also laying claim to Israel’s heritage. Josephus (Jewish Antiquities 13.171) mentions the groups… Read More »Jewish Groups at the Time of the New Testament
The first-century Roman world of the NT lay culturally at the intersection of Hellenism (Greek language and culture) and Roman imperial rule. Hence, to understand… Read More »The Roman Empire and the Greco-Roman World at the Time of the New Testament
Most of the writers of the NT grew up in the world of “Second Temple Judaism,” the time between the temple’s reconstruction (516 b.c.) and its… Read More »The Time between the Testaments
Introduction Mesopotamian texts indicate that long before Israel entered Canaan, other countries had prophets. These texts from Israel’s neighbors indicate that their prophets claimed to… Read More »Introduction to the Prophetic Books