R. Mansfield Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Experience A THEOLOGICAL PANORAMA with discounts on titles from Olson, Beale, Horton, Witherington, Goldingay + MORE! Expand the theological folder in your Accordance Library with these titles: NEW! Olson's Arminian Theology: Myths and Realties--25% off! NEW! Olson's The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction--25% off! NEW! Olson's The Mosaic of Christian Belief: 20 Centuries of Unity and Diversity--25% off! NEW! Olson's The Story of Christian Theology: 20 Centuries of Tradition & Reform--25% off! Horton's Systematic Theology--60% off! Horton's Bible Doctrines--60% off! Horton's What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit--60% off! Horton's Commentary on Acts--60% off! Horton's Commentary on 1 & 2 Corinthians--60% off! Elwell's Evangelical Dictionary of Theology--25% off! Beale's A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New--24% off! McComiskey's The Minor Prophets: An Exegetical and Expository Commentary--24% off! Witherington's The Indelible Image: The Theological & Ethical Thought World of the New Testament (2 vols)--31% off! Goldingay's The Theology of the Book of Isaiah--26% off! Bradley's Liberating Black Theology: The Bible and the Black Experience in America--27% off! The sale prices listed on the titles listed above are good through April 25, 2016 (11:59 pm EDT) and cannot be combined with any other discounts. Get more information in today's blog post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukfraser Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 What are peoples thoughts on beale's nt theology and goldingay's isaiah? Read a few reviews but still undecided and they dont seem to have rocketed up the top seller list as other sale items have! Thanks (Already have the use of ot in the nt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnABarnett Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Don't know about Beale's NT Theology, but if it's quality was anything like his Greek commentary on Revelation it would be greatly worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Francis Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 What are peoples thoughts on… goldingay's isaiah? I only just got it a few days ago but generally like most everything Goldingay has written. Here is a couple paragraphs from the intro to give you a feel for it. My aim in this book is, first, to articulate the theology in the book called Isaiah—that is, to consider the theology expressed or implied by the different sections of Isaiah. I then aim to articulate the theology of the book called Isaiah as a whole, the theology that can be constructed from the book when one stands back and considers the whole. When readers first open Isaiah, they may do so with two assumptions that make the book puzzling. One assumption is that the book will unfold in a clearly logical and coherent way, like a sermon with an introduction, three points and a conclusion. The other is that the entire book was written by Isaiah ben Amoz, the prophet whose name comes in the first line. Reading the book indeed puts a question mark by both assumptions. Martin Luther once commented that the Prophets “have a queer way of talking, like people who, instead of proceeding in an orderly manner, ramble off from one thing to the next, so that you cannot make head or tail of them.”1 A book like Isaiah conveys that impression because it wasn’t conceived by an author in the manner of this book that I’m writing, where I make a plan and know where I am going, and where (for the most part) I am writing from scratch and am beginning from the beginning, and where none of it exists until I write it. Isaiah is a collection of many prophecies that started off life as separate messages that were delivered on different occasions, and have subsequently been collected in this “book.” In chapter 8, Isaiah tells us about an occasion when he himself collected some of his prophecies; Jeremiah 36 gives a more detailed account of when Jeremiah did the same thing. Typically, a single “chapter” in Isaiah may include two or three or four prophecies that were delivered on different occasions (Isaiah 1 is a good opening example). Prophets, after all, were not essentially, necessarily or primarily writers. They were more like preachers. But they didn’t deliver fifteen-minute sermons. To judge from the books that collect their prophecies, they delivered short messages that took two or three minutes to proclaim. They didn’t have a captive audience, like a preacher; they stood and harangued people in the temple courts. They could perhaps assume that (like modern Westerners) people had short attention spans, or that people would soon move on from listening to one prophet to listening to another, or that they needed to say what they had to say before they got arrested. So Isaiah is a kind of collage constructed from messages delivered in this way on different occasions. The implication is not that its organization is random; a collage may be purposefully put together. There will then be something to learn from its individual elements and also something to learn from the total arrangement. So it is with Isaiah. But we have to take a different approach to reading from the one we would take to a book such as Genesis or Ruth. John Goldingay, The Theology of the Book of Isaiah, Accordance electronic ed. (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2014), 11-12. -Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Heads up! This sale ends at midnight EDT tonight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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