The Gospel

by Douglas W. Kennard

Overview

This book is about stating gospel, especially in the Bible. After surveying historical statements of gospel within their respective soteriology, biblical contexts are explored that identify either: 1) as gospel; 2) promise forgiveness; 3) promise everlasting life; 4) promise kingdom; or 5) promise resurrection with Christ. These five statements indicate the outcomes that are normally associated with the gospel across Christendom. This framework provides legitimate biblical gospel statements within exclusive salvation in Christ. This volume presents and appropriates biblical gospel patterns as a new reformation for fullness of salvation in Christ and His earthly kingdom. This variety of biblical gospel statements provoke: 1) unity around Jesus Christ and God's gracious salvation; 2) toleration concerning rival statements of Christian gospel; and 3) jettisoning unsupported traditional frameworks. For example, ticket Christianity with little or no life change except past faith and an experience prepare Jesus Christ to say to a major section of the church, "Depart from Me, I never knew you!" Better to hear the eschatological Christ say, "Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world . . . because to the extent that you did to these brothers of Mine, even the least, you did to Me."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532636974
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	10/26/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Douglas W. Kennard Professor of New Testament and Theology at Houston Graduate School of Theology. He is author of Epistemology and Logic in the New Testament (2016), Biblical Covenantalism (2015), A Critical Realist’s Theological Method (2013), Messiah Jesus: Christology in His Day and Ours (2008), The Relationship Between Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology and Contextualization (1999), The Classical Christian God (2002), and with Marv Pate, Deliverance Now and Not Yet (2003, 2005).

Douglas W. Kennard is professor of Christian Scriptures at Houston Graduate School of Theology. He is author of Petrine Studies (2022), A Biblical Theology of the Book of Isaiah (2020), A Biblical Theology of Hebrews (2018), The Gospel (2017), Epistemology and Logic in the New Testament (2016), Biblical Covenantalism—three volumes (2015), A Critical Realist’s Theological Method (2013), Messiah Jesus: Christology in His Day and Ours (2008), The Relationship Between Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology and Contextualization (1999), The Classical Christian God (2002), and, with Marv Pate, Deliverance Now and Not Yet (2003, 2005).

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 The Servant's Atonement in Isaiah 21

3 Mark as Narrative Gospel 30

4 Beatitudes to Kingdom 32

5 Following Jesus' New Covenant Teaching of the Law in the Narrow Way 44

6 Keep the Law of Love 55

7 Kingdom Parables 59

8 Forgiveness in the Synoptics 68

9 Matthew 19:16-20:16: Standard and Poor 77

10 Eschatological Reversal 95

11 Sheep and Goats 101

12 John 3: Believing Jesus Begets Everlasting Life 104

13 Messiah unto Everlasting Life 110

14 Believe in Jesus as Sent from God to Have Everlasting Life 112

15 Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life 115

16 Jesus as Gospel 117

17 Christ's Vicarious Atonement 147

18 Gospel as Jesus' Death and Resurrection 168

19 Christ's Imputation 171

20 Mystical Justification by the Spirit 177

21 Paul Identifies that Jesus Is Lord 186

22 Redemption Victory Procession 188

23 Paul's Narrow Way to Everlasting Life 190

24 Christ's Atonement in Hebrews 202

25 Petrine Redemption unto the Narrow Way to Kingdom 215

26 Christ's Propitiation in 1 John 224

27 The Overcomer in Revelation 237

28 Putting It All Together 244

Appendix: A Critique of Anselm's Cur Deus Homo (Why the God-Man?): Argument from Atonement 247

Select Bibliography 263

Author index 283

Scripture index 291

Subject index 299

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“There is a lot of talk about what is the gospel and who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’ because of their definition. Douglas Kennard has done an admirable job of discussing book by book what the New Testament identifies as ‘good news’ or ‘salvation’ and portraying it against a Jewish backdrop. He has had to be selective, but does succeed in this biblical theology in showing both the unity and diversity in the biblical good news.”

—Peter H. Davids, Visiting Professor of Bible and Applied Theology, Houston Graduate School of Theology

Editorial Reviews

There is a lot of talk about what is the gospel and who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’ because of their definition. Douglas Kennard has done an admirable job of discussing book by book what the New Testament identifies as ‘good news’ or ‘salvation’ and portraying it against a Jewish backdrop. He has had to be selective, but does succeed in this biblical theology in showing both the unity and diversity in the biblical good news.”

—Peter H. Davids, Visiting Professor of Bible and Applied Theology, Houston Graduate School of Theology

From the Publisher