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Article: What is New Testament Theology?
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- April 1, 2003
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What is New Testament Theology?
by Dan O. Via
Guides to Biblical Scholarship. New Testament Series. Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002.148 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-8006-3263-X.
THIS VOLUME BEGINS BY NOTING THAT IN 1979 Hendrikus Boers published a volume in this same series under the same title. Much has been written in the intervening twenty-four years about the nature, task, and even possibility of New Testament theology. Students would be well served by a volume that provided a reliable and insightful roadmap of this scholarship. Within the first several pages, however, Via makes it clear that his volume does not seek to address this need. Instead,
[t]he primary issue to be pursued in this ...