Gospel of the Kingdom (eBook)
328 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-0-620-71275-0 (ISBN)
Why I wrote this book1
Part 1
What is the gospel? 5
Chapter 1
Gospel confusion6
Gospels galore-6
"Gospels" in the ancient world-8
Gospel: Momentous news-15
Chapter 2
The Old Testament and the kingdom of God17
Foundational promises-17
Blessing and covenant-19
A nation under God-20
Prophets, priests, judges and kings-22
A disappointing dynasty-25
Exile-26
A kingdom beyond the Exile-28
Chapter 3
The gospel according to Isaiah31
Isaiah of Jerusalem-31
Indictment-33
Catastrophe and beyond-33
Comfort-35
The gospel of the coming King-35
The gospel is future-38
Chapter 4
Jesus' gospel of the kingdom41
Jewish hopes at the time of Jesus-41
Jesus at Nazareth-43
An historic moment -48
The gospel of God-51
Spreading the word-53
The kingdom is rejected-55
A new phase-56
Chapter 5
The gospel under fire59
Controversy-60
Jesus' enemy-61
The struggle with flesh and blood-63
Kingdoms in conflict-66
The victor-70
Chapter 6
The gospel breaks out72
The World War II gospel-74
The gospel in Acts-76
Gospelling Jews-77
A greater King-79
The apostles' gospel-80
The defence of the gospel-81
Response-82
Gospelling Gentiles-83
Too narrow a view?-87
The gospel of salvation-87
Part 2
Proclaiming the gospel91
Chapter 7
The kingdom's King94
Jesus is Lord-95
The face of Jesus Christ-96
Storytellers-97
Peter and Mark -99
Portraits of Jesus-101
Hidden treasure-105
Using the Gospels-106
Chapter 8
The crucified King111
Crucifixion-111
The wounded face of Christ-113
The preaching of the cross-114
Power in weakness-115
Principalities and powers -117
A ransom for many-120
Why redemption?-123
Why slaves?-125
Sacrifice-126
Law-128
The reach of the law-131
Christ's people-138
Vicarious penalty-139
In Christ-141
Dead to the law-141
Reconciled-142
The prodigal tax collector -145
The cross and the gospel-147
God so loved the world-148
Chapter 9
Proof of the gospel151
Acts facts-152
A remarkable miracle-157
Jesus on trial-159
Enthronement-163
The kingdom has come-166
The power of the cross and the power of the resurrection-167
A great omission-171
What happens when you die?-174
Eternal life-177
Preaching resurrection today-182
Chapter 10
Your kingdom come187
The problem of evil -187
Our Lord come-189
Hope-193
The climactic events-194
The new world-199
Christ's mission-203
Chapter 11
The kingdom now206
Where is Jesus?-207
Dealing with enemies-209
The coming of Islam-214
Building his Church-215
The Holy Spirit-221
The mission-224
Our great High Priest-225
Making war-229
Gospelling the ascended King-233
Chapter 12
Justification by faith235
The gospel concerning his Son-237
The need of righteousness-239
The failure of righteousness-241
Free forgiveness-243
Justification and the gospel-244
Why justification by faith?-248
Does justification by faith matter?-250
Justification by faith and Christian life-253
Preaching justification by faith-256
Chapter 13
Gospel life263
Good news to the poor-264
Walking the talk-265
What is ethics?-266
Old Testament ethics-267
Is morality relative?-271
New covenant-272
Wisdom-273
A new era-275
Jesus' words-277
The apostles' teaching-278
Ethical principle-279
A missionary life-280
The Sermon on the Mount-281
Back to Nazareth-282
Church-284
New world -287
Appendix 1
The meaning of "gospel" in the Bible288
An angel gospels some shepherds-291
Appendix 2
The righteousness of God in Paul292
Righteousness on trial-296
A new righteousness-298
The meaning of justification by faith-302
Works Cited305
Index309
About the Author312
Also by this author313
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.5.2016 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare |
Schlagworte | Bible • Christian thought • evangelical • Gospel • Jesus • Theology |
ISBN-10 | 0-620-71275-9 / 0620712759 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-620-71275-0 / 9780620712750 |
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