This work is not a history of New Testament times, nor an account
of New Testament religion. Nor does it proceed from a view that the
New Testament was written as theology. We must bear in mind that
the writers of the New Testament books were not writing set
theological pieces. They were concerned with the needs of the
churches for which they wrote. Those churches already had the Old
Testament, but these new writings became in time the most
significant part of the Scriptures of the believing community. As
such, they should be studied in their own right, and these
questions should be asked: What do these writings mean? What is the
theology they express or imply? What is of permanent validity in
them? We read these writings across a barrier of many centuries and
from a standpoint of a very different culture. We make every effort
to allow for this, but we never succeed perfectly. In this book I
am trying hard to find out what the New Testament authors meant,
and this not as an academic exercise, but as the necessary prelude
to our understanding of what their writings mean for us today. --
From the Introduction
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