Free Zondervan Book by Walter Kaiser
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The Promise-Plan of God, A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments [LINK]
by Walter Kaiser (2008)
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Here are the opening words of the Introduction:
"The emphasis on diversity within Scripture is so pervasive in our day that most biblical scholars would judge any other approach to biblical theology as being out of keeping with the current lines of thinking for this discipline. As Gerhard Maier noted: "It is difficult to speak of a “center” of Scripture today, because the rubric “center of Scripture” is often separated from the “unity of Scripture.” While the two were closely identified at the time of the Reformation, the Enlightenment disengaged them. Indeed, the “center of Scripture” practically replaced the lost “unity of Scripture.
"Accordingly, in an attempt to return to those pre-critical times, especially as enjoyed in the Reformation, I will argue for a textually derived “center” that simultaneously parallels the case for the “unity of the Bible.” I believe that a biblical center and its accompanying unity were strongly attested, especially by the writers of the New Testament, who taught that the doctrine of the Messiah, the Anointed One of God, was preserved as a record of the “promise” (or promise-plan) made by God; yet it first appeared in all parts of the Old Testament, even though it appeared there under a constellation of different but synonymous names (such as “word,” “rest,” “blessing,” and the like). This case can be presented by describing ten scriptural generalizations of the promise-plan of God. But first, let us seek to define the unifying plan that Scripture displays."
Then, later, this:
"My definition of the promise-plan of God would be as follows: "The promise-plan is God’s word of declaration, beginning with Eve and continuing on through history, especially in the patriarchs and the Davidic line, that God would continually be in his person and do in his deeds and works (in and through Israel, and later the church) his redemptive plan as his means of keeping that promised word alive for Israel, and thereby for all who subsequently believed. All in that promised seed were called to act as a light for all the nations so that all the families of the earth might come to faith and to new life in the Messiah."
Walter C. Kaiser Jr,
The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008), 17, 19.
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