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

Balla, Peter

ISBN 10: 1565633946 / ISBN 13: 9781565633940

Published by Hendrickson Pub, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify the Enterprise
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565633946
• ISBN 13: 9781565633940
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Balla surveys and examines the challenges facing any attempt to write a New Testament theology and offers his own program for justifying such an undertaking. With a view toward uncovering a basic unity in the theology of the New Testament, Balla maps how the historian may indeed describe the theological content of the New Testament. He asserts that orthodoxy was not a later development but Christianity in its earliest form. He further avers that the canonĀ’s formation was not the result of a late decision; rather, it can be traced to moorings in the first century. Sure to be controversial, Challenges to New Testament Theology holds great promise as a textbook in New Testament courses and as a starting point in the scholarly discussion of the topic.

About the Author

Peter Balla received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh. Since 1996 he has been chairperson of the New Testament department at the Karoli Gaspar Reformed University in Budapest.