Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify the Enterprise

From: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society | Date: March 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify the Enterprise. By Peter Balla. WUNT 95. Tubingen: Mohr (Paul Siebeck, 1997. xvi f 284 pp., DM 98.00 paper.

This book is "a version of [the author's] thesis brought up-to-date" (p. viii). The title is an accurate indication of the author's objective. Balla attempts to justify the enterprise of NT theology, which, as most seminarians know, is questioned by many in the academy on two counts: first, that the NT canon is a theological and artificial delimiting of the textual evidence for early Christian thought; and second, that ...

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