Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament

Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament2023 Word Guild Award Winner (Biblical Studies) This paradigm shifting study is the first book length investigation into the compositional dates of the New Testament to be published in over forty years. It argues that, with the notable exception of the undisputed Pauline Epistles, most New Testament texts were composed twenty to thirty years earlier than is typically supposed by contemporary biblical scholars. What emerges is a revised view of how

Responses from Kevin Vanhoozer and Stanley Porter are included

an expert in monastic studies

How can the church help bring God's kingdom to earth without relying on the political structures of this world

He then traces the reaction to racial progress in the form of white backlash as he explores the fate of civil reconciliation from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement

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Unique among other books on the subject

invites readers to reconsider long-held views on God's engagement with creation

Named a 2014 Jesus Creed Book of the Year (Theology)

Approximately eighty-five illustrative items are included throughout the book

and engagement with culture

the challenges of doing global historical theology

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