TY - BOOK AU - Kaiser,Walter C. AU - Kaiser,Walter C. AU - TI - The promise-plan of God: a biblical theology of the Old and New Testaments SN - 9780310275862 AV - BS543 .P766 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - Zondervan KW - Bible KW - Theology KW - God KW - Promises N1 - "Based on Toward an Old Testament theology."; Chapter 1. Prolegomena to the Promise: The Pre-Patriarchal Period; Chapter 10. The Kingdom of the Promise: The Exilic Prophets; Chapter 11. The Triumph of the Promise: Postexilic Times; Chapter 12. The Promise-Plan and the Law of God; Chapter 13. The Promise-Plan and the Mission of the Church; Chapter 14. The Promise-Plan and Paul's Prison Epistles; Chapter 15. The Promise-Plan and the Kingdom of God; Chapter 16. The Promise-Plan and the Promise of the Holy Spirit; Chapter 17. The Promise-Plan and the Purity of Life and Doctrine; Chapter 18. The Promise-Plan and Letters to Pastors; Chapter 19. The Promise-Plan and the Supremacy of Jesus; Chapter 2. The Provisions in the Promise: The Patriarchal Era; Chapter 20. The Promise-Plan and the Gospel of the Kingdom; Chapter 3. The People of the Promise: The Mosaic Era; Chapter 4. The Place of the Promise: The Pre-Monarchial Era; Chapter 5. The King of the Promise: The Davidic Era; Chapter 6. Life in the Promise: The Wisdom Era; Chapter 7. The Day of Promise: Prophets of the Ninth Century BC; Chapter 8. Servants of the Promise: Prophets of the Eighth Century BC; Chapter 9. Renewal of the Promise: Prophets of the Seventh Century BC; Introduction: The Arrival of the Promise: Jesus the Messiah; Part 1. A Biblical Theology of the Old Testament; Part 2. A Biblical Theology of the New Testament; 1 (pages 403-408) and indexes; 1 and 2 Thessalonians: The Coming of the Lord --; 1 and 2 Corinthians: Fixing the Disorders in the Church --; Romans: Righteousness from God in the Gospel; 1 Peter: The Suffering of Believers --; 2 Peter and Jude: The Condemnation of False Teachers --; Excursus: Did Jesus Descend into Hell to Preach? (1 Peter 3:18-20); 1 Timothy: Conduct in the Household of God --; 2 Timothy: Godlessness in the Last Days --; Titus: The Grace of God; Colossians: The Primacy of Jesus and New Life in Christ --; Philemon: The Fellowship Found in the Gospel --; Ephesians: The Mystery of God --; Philippians: Imitation of Christ; Epilogue --; Appendix A: Chronological Charts on the Dates of the Books of the Bible --; Appendix B: Biblical Frequency of the Word Epangelia, "Promise"; Genesis 1-11 --; Excursus A: Can the Numbers in the Genealogies of Genesis Be Used to Calculate the Date of Adam's Birth? --; Excursus B: The Sons of GOd and the Daughters of Men (Genesis 6:1-4); Genesis 12-50 --; Job and the Patriarchs; Hebrews --; Excursus: Warnings against Defiantly Rejecting the Knowledge of the Truth; James: The Perfect Law of God --; Galatians: The Observance of the Law --; Excursus: The Promise of Gentile Inclusion and the Law in the Old Testament and Paul; The Book of Amos --; The Book of Hosea --; The Book of Jonah --; The Book of Micah --; The Book of Isaiah; The Book of Deuteronomy --; The Book of Joshua --; The Book of Judges --; Excursus: A Theology of God and the Canaanite Genocide; The Book of Exodus --; The Book of Leviticus --; The Book of Numbers --; Excursus: The Problem with Numbers in Numbers; The Book of Ezekiel --; The Book of Daniel; The Book of Haggai --; The Book of Zechariah --; The Book of Malachi --; The Books of Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; The Book of Job --; The Book of Proverbs --; The Book of Ecclesiastes --; The Song of Songs --; Excursus: Wisdom's Relationship to Torah; The Book of Nahum --; The Book of Zephaniah --; The Book of Habakkuk --; The Book of Jeremiah; The Book of Obadiah --; The Book of Joel; The Book of Ruth --; The Books of Samuel --; The Royal Psalms --; 1 Kings 1-11; The Gospel of John --; 1, 2, 3 John: Love for the Brethren --; Revelation: The Apocalypse of John --; Excursus A: Is Satan Bound Before or After the Second Coming of Christ? --; Excursus B: Are There Two Resurrections or Just One, and If Two, Is One Spiritual and the Other Physical?; The Gospel of Luke --; The Acts of the Apostles; The Gospel of Mark: Jesus as a Ransom for Many --; The Gospel of Matthew: The Kingdom of God --; Conclusion; 2 N2 - What is the central theme of the Bible? Given the diversity of authorship, genre, and context of the Bible's various books, is it even possible to answer such a question? Or in trying to do so, is an external grid being unnaturally superimposed on the biblical text? These are difficult questions that the discipline of biblical theology has struggled to answer. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic Toward an Old Testament Theology, Walter Kaiser offers a solution to these unresolved issues. He proposes that there is indeed a unifying center to the theology and message of the Bible that is indicated and affirmed by Scripture itself. That center is the promise of God. It is one all-encompassing promise of life through the Messiah that winds itself throughout salvation history in both the Old and New Testaments, giving cohesiveness and unity to the various parts of Scripture. After laying out his proposal, Kaiser works chronologically through the books of both testaments, demonstrating how the promise is seen throughout, how the various sub-themes of each book relate to the promise, and how God's plan to fulfill the promise progressively unfolds. Here is a rich and illuminating biblical theology that will stir the emotion and the intellect. - Back cover UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007044575.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0806/2007044575-b.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0803/2007044575-d.html ER -