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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0927-2569
- eISSN
- 1568-5152
- DOI
- 10.1163/156851507X172868
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Abstract
92 Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 16 (2008) 83-95 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156851507X172868 New Testament eology: Communion and Community. By Philip F. Esler. Minneapo- lis, Fortress Press 2005. Originating from the Manson Memorial Lecture delivered at University of Manches- ter in 2001, Esler’s New Testament eology: Communion and Community opens with his own understanding of the New Testament as a whole. From his first page we read: “...e New Testament is a fundamental resource for the maintenance of Christian life” [italics his]. His intention is self-avowedly theological and even ecclesiastical. His aim in this book is to propose how the New Testament is normatively to be read “so as to maximize the impact [that the New Testament] will have on contemporary Chris- tian existence under God... I wish to promote a specifically Christian rationale for reading the New Testament that is related to its role in speaking of God’s ongoing re- lationship with human beings and the cosmos” (p. 1). Chapter 1 considers in particular Gabler and his achievements in Biblical eolo- gy. Esler goes on in chapter 2 to set out his model of persons in communion, and de- fend in chapter 3
Journal
Biblical Interpretation – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008