According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible

by Graeme Goldsworthy

Publisher:

IVP

, 1991

Overview

The massive diversity and complexity of the Bible can make it a daunting project for anyone to tackle. Getting a grasp on the unity of the Bible, its central message from Genesis to Revelation, helps immensely in understanding the meaning of any one book or passage. That is the goal of this book by Graeme Goldsworthy.

• How do the Old and New Testaments fit together?
• What is the point of biblical theology?
• What is the overall story of the Bible?
• What difference does it make?

Goldsworthy answers these questions with an integrated theology of both Old and New Testaments that avoids unnecessary technicalities. Concise, pithy chapters featuring dozens of charts, highlighted summaries, and study questions make According to Plan an enormously useful book for understanding how the Bible fits together as the unfolding story of God's plan for salvation.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Biblical theology is a verbal map of the overall message of the Bible.” (Page 23)

“Biblical theology is a way of understanding the Bible as a whole, so that we can see the plan of salvation as it unfolds step by step. It is concerned with God’s message to us in the form that it actually takes in Scripture.” (Page 29)

“The second view is that we are only partly independent of God.” (Page 37)

“Presuppositions, then, are the assumptions we make in order to be able to hold some fact to be true.” (Page 44)

“Fourth, there is the central fact of the gospel, which is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead” (Page 82)

Product Details

• Title: According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible
• Author: Graeme Goldsworthy
• Publisher: IVP
• Print Publication Date: 1991
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 244
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Bible; Bible › Criticism, interpretation
• Resource ID: LLS:WS_0_8518
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-03-08T19:59:00Z

About Graeme Goldsworthy

Graeme Goldsworthy is an Australian Anglican and Old Testament scholar. He was formerly lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia and continues to teach there part time. Goldsworthy is the author of According to Plan, Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, Gospel Kingdom,The Gospel in Revelation and The Gospel and Wisdom. He has an MA from Cambridge University and a ThM and PhD from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.