Ladd's magisterial work on New Testament theology has well served thousands of seminary students since its publication in 1974. Enhanced and updated here by Donald A Hagner, this comprehensive, standard evangelical text now features augmented bibliographies and two completely new chapters on subjects that Ladd himself wanted to treat in a revised edition--the theology of each of the Synoptic Evangelists and the issue of unity and diversity in the New Testament--written, respectively, by R. T. France and David Wenham.

2011 Reprint of 1959 American Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. George Eldon Ladd (1911-1982) was a Baptist minister and professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Ladd was ordained in 1933 and pastored in New England from 1936 to 1945. He served as an instructor at Gordon College of Theology and Missions (now Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), Wenham, Massachusetts from 1942-45. He was an associate professor of New Testament and Greek from 1946-50, and head of the department of New Testament from 1946-49. In 1950-52 he was an associate professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif, becoming professor of biblical theology in 1952. Ladd was a notable, modern proponent of Historic Pre-millennialism, and often criticized dispensationalist views. His writings regarding the Kingdom of God have become a cornerstone of Kingdom theology.

There are two traditional interpretations of the relationship between the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments. One sees separate tracts for Israel and the Christian church; the other view recognizes a progressive revelation and a unity of the Testaments. George Eldon Ladd holds the latter view and asserts that: "our final word . . . is to be found in the New Testament reinterpretation of the Old Testament prophecy." Only as the prophecies are seen in the light of God's revelation through Christ can we clearly understand what they mean in relation to the end times.

Jesus Christ is coming again! That is the Blessed Hope which has since the earliest days of the church energized biblical Christians looking for the full revelation of God's redemption But even among those who have most devoutly looked forward to the second coming of the Lord there have often been disputes about its nature. At their sharpest, these disputes can lead to the breakdown of fellowship among those who should be standing firmly together against unbelief. Through its many printings, this book by George Eldon Ladd has proved to be a helpful guide for Christians who want to discern clearly the basic biblical teachings about the Blessed Hope. Writing not for his fellow scholars as much as men and women in the pews, Ladd, whose numerous studies of New Testament interpretation earned him the reputation of being one of contemporary evangelicalism's leading thinkers, sketches the history of interpretations of Christ's second coming and then carefully and lucidly examines the biblical passages on which this doctrine is based. Ladd's conclusion is that the blessed hope is the second coming of Jesus Christ, not a pretribulation rapture of believers in a secret coming of Jesus. Yet he concludes, too, that there should be liberty and charity within the Christian community for all who hold to the expectation of -the blessed hope and appearing in glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.-

New in the Eerdmans Classic Biblical Commentaries collection. In this now-classic exposition of Revelation, first published in 1972, George Eldon Ladd offers a clear, engaging, and insightful reading of the Apocalypse that is ideal for the pulpit, classroom, or personal study. In a brief introduction Ladd discusses the subject of authorship, the date and historical setting of Revelation, and the various methods of interpretation (preterist, historical, idealist, and futurist) that have been applied to the book throughout history. He then offers an analytical outline of Revelation's structure and his verse-by-verse commentary, which reflects a historic premillennial perspective. The entire work is marked by Ladd's sensitivity to the needs of both scholars and general readers and by his concern for proclaiming the message of Revelation for our time.

El Dr. George Eldon Ladd fue ministro bautista y sirvio en varias iglesias de dicha denominacion. a partir de 1950, ejercio como profesor de Exegesis del Nuevo Testamento y de Teologia en el Fuller Theological Seminary (EE.UU.). Escribio su tesis doctoral en la Universidad de Harvard, y amplio su curriculum haciendo estudios de postdoctorado en las universidades de Basel y Heidelberg. Ladd, conocido en el mundo de habla hispana por sus libros Creo en la resurreccion de Jesus, Critica del Nuevo Testamento, Evangelio del Reino y Apocalipsis de Juan: un comentario, presenta en esta obra una teologia completa y erudita de todo el Nuevo Testamento. La revision de 1993 incluye dos capitulos nuevos: Mateo, Marcos y Lucas de R.T. France, los cuales tratan la teologia de estos tres evangelistas, y Unidad y diversidad en el Nuevo Testamento de David Wenham."