The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to Its Writings and Themes / Edition 1

by William Loader

Overview

The dynamic teachings of the New Testament are often lost in the dryness and formality of academic study. In The New Testament with Imagination William Loader seeks to solve this conundrum. He brings imagination into play to enter the world of the New Testament and carefully reads key sample passages to go right to the heart of its message.

This book offers a unique new way of approaching the New Testament — nothing else like it is in print — and will be accessible to a broad readership, although it will also give longtime students of scripture a fresh perspective. Loader's historically sound methodology remains focused on imagining what we know through established research, not fanciful reconstruction.

Loader's distinctive work has the strength of a standard introduction, but without an overload of information, and the depth of a New Testament theology, but written in language accessible to readers new to the New Testament.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802827463
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	06/11/2007
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament atMurdoch University, Perth, Australia. His other books onsexuality in early Judaism and Christianity are Philo,Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality;The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality; TheDead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality; and Enoch,Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality.,

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     ix
Jesus and Capernaum: Hope and Change     1
Waking Up in Capernaum     1
Luke 4:14-30 - The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry according to Luke     7
Matthew 20:1-16 - The Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard     13
Matthew 5:17-48 - Jesus and the Scripture according to Matthew     16
Mark 10 - Leadership, Family, Wealth     22
Jesus and Conflict: Death and Resurrection     27
Springtime in Jerusalem     27
Luke 15     34
Mark 2:23-28 and 2:1-3:6     38
The Last Meal: Mark 14:22-25; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 22:15-20; 1 Corinthians 11:22-26     43
Mark 16:1-8 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-11     54
Paul amid the Turbulence of the Church     63
Letting Your Hair Down     63
Galatians 1-2     74
1 Corinthians 11-14     80
Romans 1-3     86
Colossians 3:18-4:1 and Ephesians 5:21-6:9     96
The Gospels: Putting the Story Together     105
A Scribe for the Kingdom of Heaven     105
Marie 6:30-8:26     116
Matthew 15:1-20     123
Matthew 18-19     129
Luke 10:25-42     137
John and Beyond: Faith and the Future     143
"God Is Love"     143
John 1-3 in Overview     151
John 4:4-42     160
John 6, John 13-17, and 1 John     165
The Book of Revelation     173
Conclusion     184
Appendices
The New Testament Writings in Overview     188
Matthew's Use of Mark in Outline     189
Luke's Use of Mark in Outline     192
Some Significant Dates in Early Jewish History     195
For Further Reading     197
Subject Index     199
Scripture Index     202