The New Chosen People, Revised and Expanded Edition
William W Klein
ISBN 10: 149820936X ISBN 13: 9781498209366
Published by Wipf and Stock Publishers, US, 2015
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Controversy rages on about God's choosing people for salvation. Are only the few elect? Rather than typically beginning with the preconceptions of systematic theologies, Dr. William Klein takes up this question by searching for a biblical theology of election. He surveys the OT contexts of God's choosing individuals--prophets, priests, kings--to serve divine purposes, and considers God's election of the nation of Israel as his special people. This OT study proposes that God's election is both individual and corporate, but not always determinative. Individuals entered the people of God by birth, but not all the people found salvation. Faith in Yahweh was required. This book traces these elective understandings through the intertestamental literature, identifying continuities and shifts. The bulk of the study, and the heart of the argument, focus on the New Testament. Klein identifies concepts of election, and relationships between writers in the gospels, the Lucan material, Paul's writings, and the rest. The new covenant, God choosing the church in Christ, emphasizes election as corporate, while the individual election of Jesus' disciples and of Paul raises the question whether such chosenness is necessarily salvific. In closing, Klein discusses the most engaging and divisive questions around God's election, and offers a real challenge to today's church.
About the Author: Dr. William W. Klein is Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. Dr. Klein has written articles for many dictionaries and encyclopedias, and edited and was the major contributor to An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. He authored "Ephesians" in the revised edition of the Expositor's Bible Commentary; Become What You Are: Spiritual Formation According to the Sermon on the Mount; and the Handbook for Personal Bible Study.
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Title: The New Chosen People, Revised and Expanded ...
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers, US
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
Edition: 2nd ed.