Article: Theology in Exodus: Biblical Theology in the Form of a Commentary

DONALD E. GOWAN, Theology in Exodus: Biblical Theology in the Form of a Commentary (Louisville: Westminister/John Knox, 1994). Pp. xviii + 297. $28.

Gowan, "a Christian for whose life the Bible is definitive," experiments with a way of writing biblical theology which he hopes will bridge "the gulf that separates biblical scholarship from theology in general" (p. xvii). In an introductory chapter G. explains the possibly misleading title. "Theology" means literally "discourse about God." Biblical theology is distinguished from history of religion, from approaches in which an organizing principle is found or introduced or a unifying center for the Bible is claimed, and from propositional and ...

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