Daniel I. Block Theological Studies Collection (2 vols.)

by Daniel I. Block

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2014–2021

Overview

Daniel I. Block is Gunther H. Knoedler Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. This collection features two works by Block exploring the theological significance of worship and covenant. Block brings a lifetime of study and reflection, offering a comprehensive biblical foundation and illuminating Old Testament worship practices and principles. These volumes examine the heart and history of God’s redemptive plan and shows why the covenants are essential for our understanding of the Bible. He develops a theology of worship that is consistent with the teachings of Scripture and is applicable for the church today.

Key Features

• Offers a comprehensive biblical foundation of worship
• Explores why the covenants are essential for our understanding of the Bible
• Focuses on God’s covenants as the means by which God has reached out to a fallen humanity

Covenant: The Framework of God’s Grand Plan of Redemption

• Author: Daniel I. Block
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2021
• Pages: 680

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Leading scholar Daniel Block helps students of the Bible understand the big picture of God’s covenants with humanity as they play out in both the Old and New Testaments.

After fifty years of teaching and preaching experience around the globe, Block brings a lifetime of study and reflection on the Old Testament and relationship with God to this comprehensive volume. The book focuses on God’s covenants as the means by which God has reached out to a fallen humanity. It examines the heart and history of God’s redemptive plan and shows why the covenants are essential for our understanding of the Bible.

This is one of the most nourishing books of biblical theology that I have read. The accumulated fruit of a half century of faithful and scholarly Bible study and teaching is evident on every page. While completely familiar with every nuance of critical scholarship, Daniel Block refreshingly allows the Bible to speak for itself without detours and debates. With courageous exposure of the damaging ways by which different Christian tribes--including evangelical ones--have relegated, negated, or simply ignored the First Testament, Block showcases the glorious redemptive coherence and missional hope of the grand covenantal narrative structure of Scripture. Every chapter is enriching, with illuminating exegesis from all over Scripture--a feast of good things to which the only adequate response is the last word of the book: 'Hallelujah!

—Christopher J. H. Wright, Langham Partnership; author of The Mission of God

For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship

• Author: Daniel I. Block
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 232

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Current discussions about worship are often driven by pragmatics and personal preferences rather than the teaching of Scripture. True worship, however, is a response to God’s gracious revelation—in order to be acceptable to God, worship must be experienced on God’s terms. In this volume, respected Old Testament scholar Daniel Block examines worship in the Bible, offering a comprehensive biblical foundation and illuminating Old Testament worship practices and principles.

Block develops a theology of worship that is consistent with the teachings of Scripture and is applicable for the church today. He also introduces readers to a wide range of issues related to worship. Ideal for professors, seminarians, pastors, and church leaders, For the Glory of God is illustrated with diagrams, charts, and pictures that help the Scriptures come alive for readers and make the concepts discussed understandable.

Daniel Block is one of the most knowledgeable, thoughtful, and prolific teachers of the Old Testament writing today. In this important book, he turns his attention to the crucial question of worship. He rightly insists that the question is not whether we enjoy worship but rather whether God is pleased with our worship. He brings his impressive understanding of the Bible to bear on the question of proper worship. The result is an insightful study of worship that has practical implications for all. I especially recommend this volume for pastors and other church leaders.

—Tremper Longman III, Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies, Westmont College