Biblical Theology Overview

Introduction

Have you ever heard the expression: You can’t see the forest from the trees? This is said of one who focuses on the details so much they can’t see the big picture. Today’s lesson is a journey of mine in how to interpret the bible and an introduction to biblical theology.

What is biblical theology?

Definitions

Biblical Exposition

Verse by verse explanation of the text. Historical grammatical approach.

Biblical Theology

Biblical Theology

Exposition - verse by verse explanation of the text.

God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology 2.1. Finding Our Way in the Widening Gyre: The History and Purpose of Biblical Theology

to understand the Bible in its own terms, in its own chronology, as reflected in its canonical form.

Exposition - verse by verse exp

God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology 2.1. Finding Our Way in the Widening Gyre: The History and Purpose of Biblical Theology

For Vos, biblical theology was a kind of exegesis that studied “the process of the self-revelation of God deposited in the Bible.” Biblical theology is “the study of the actual self-disclosures of God in time and space which lie back of even the first committal to writing of any Biblical document,”

Hamilton, J. M., Jr. (2010). God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology (p. 45). Wheaton, IL: Crossway.

What is the bible about?

What is the bible about?

Redemption of Man

Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man

God’s Glory

Salvation through Judgment

Biblical Theology Journey

God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology 2.1. Finding Our Way in the Widening Gyre: The History and Purpose of Biblical Theology

That is, Moses presented a biblical-theological interpretation of the traditions he received regarding Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, and his own experience with his kinsmen. Joshua then presented a biblical-theological interpretation of Israel’s history (Joshua 24), and the same can be said of the rest of the authors of the Prophets and the Writings, the Gospels and Acts, the Epistles and the Apocalypse.

Biblical theology is not an expanding story but more of an unraveling mystery. In other words, you’re getting more of the same rather than more information. It’s like an onion…it has layers.

Journey through the Bible

Moses - A reflection on tradition

Joshua - A reflection on Moses and Israel’s history

Prophets - A reflection on Moses, Israel’s history, and current events: exile, Kingdom, etc

Writings - A reflection on Moses, Israel’s history, and current events: exile, Kingdom, etc

Gospels and Acts and Jesus - A reflection on Moses, Israel’s history, and current events: Messiah

Epistles - A reflection on Moses, Israel’s history, Jesus, and current events: issues in the letters

Revelation - A reflection on Moses, Israel’s history, Jesus, and current events: current and future salvation for the church as Israel was saved in the past.

Bible

Creation ()

Days 1-6 - Creation

Day 7 - Rest

Fall (Genesis 3)

God deals with sin

Flood ()

Sign of Jonah

Sacrificial System ()

English Standard Version Chapter 1

What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?

says the LORD;

I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams

and the fat of well-fed beasts;

I do not delight in the blood of bulls,

or of lambs, or of goats.

English Standard Version Chapter 10

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Jesus ()

Jesus ()

Birth

Promised Birth

Life

Prophet, priest, and King

Death

Sacrifice

Burial

Sabbath rest

Baptism - We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Resurrection

New creation

English Standard Version Chapter 5

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Church

A reflection on the scriptures applied to current events

Revelation

Future redemption of God’s people based on the past redemption of God’s people.

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v2 - holy city, new Jerusalem, bride -> Church