Diversity in the New Testament

The theme of the weekend is the agreement and diversity of the New Testament. Check the posts of Michael Bird, James McGrath, Ari Katz in the past few days. As I am rethinking my New Testament syllabus now (I'd like to constantly emphasize the diversity and unity of the New Testament), I am in my form of "family" 0.02 I think adding a dollar New Testament. And the table of apostle Godfather

PDF can also be downloaded if you wish. This figure is based on Raymond Brown's "Church of the Church" (Paulist, 1984), but I adjusted several dates to reflect my personal opinion on these issues. My date is based on Richard Bauckham's "Pseudo-Apostolic Letters" (JBL 107/3 [1988] 469-94). This is anonymous conclusion about the possibility that a particular NT will exist, based on literature, not language standards. I also encourage Martin Hinger to "master between Jesus and Paul" for those interested in the New Testament's agreement and diversity (Fortress, 1983). In particular, the first two articles of this volume, "Between Jesus and Paul:" Greek "," 7 ", Stephen (Acts 1-15, 54-8. 3) and" Chronology of the Christ and the New Testament: " For the question "The history of early Christianity" there is a convincing argument that many of the important features of Paul's theology can be traced back to the year after Jesus passed away .

The unity and diversity of the New Testament is a thorough investigation of the origins of the New Testament classics and Christianity. It assumes that the reader is familiar with the basic problems of dating, writers, and books and examines in detail the various points of the Gospel preached by Jesus, Luca, Paul, and John. It also examines primitive Christian sermons and teachings, confession formulas, verbal traditions, organization and worship, ministry and community concepts, and ritual behavior.

To see these differences, we cover the four features of New Testament theology, which are distinguished from systematics: First, the relative diversity of the New Testament; second, the character of the shepherd of the New Testament. Genre used to express theology of the New Testament; Fourth, the basic framework of New Testament theology. First, let's take a look at the various terms and categories found in the New Testament. As we have seen, systematic theology is built around the theme of the debate repeated in the history of the church. This long history brought about a relatively unified set of terms and categories that all systematic experts tend to follow. Surely, different system theologians are expressing themselves in different ways; they are not strictly unified. However, since the entire system is highly standardized, terms and categories are used in much the same way.