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We come to the 11th and final chapter of John Goldingay\u2019s Old Testament theology \u2014 OT Theology: Israel\u2019s Gospel<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. Goldingay takes cuts through the First Testament rather than building a synthetic theology; his books provide an excellent example of narrative or Story-shaped theology. The questions are different; the approach is different; and the result is different. And this chp is about Jesus as \u201cGod Sent\u201d explores how Jesus fits into that Story. We will begin the 2d volume next month and I hope you can purchase this book and follow along with us (OT Theology: Israel\u2019s Faith<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>). His books are long so one chp per month is do-able. What do you think?
\nAs is the case with Goldingay, since the chps are long and the path winding, summaries would get too long \u2026 so we\u2019ll just dip into points here and there.
\nOn Jesus as herald of God\u2019s reign; he doesn\u2019t like the term \u201ckingdom.\u201d Too much history behind it so he uses \u201creign\u201d and \u201csovereignty.\u201d Oddly enough, he then speaks of the message of Jesus being good news socially and bad news for those in rule. The kingdom is \u201cproleptically present\u201d in Jesus. And, in dealing with the difficult imminent passages of Jesus, he says it can refer to an immediate thing (like the disciples\u2019 seeing Jesus in glorified form), to the ongoing significance of Jesus, and that the reign of God turns out unlike what was expected. The next event turns out to be an interim. [This is a big point; he doesn\u2019t make much of it, but it helps us to read prophetic literature.]
\nThe \u201creign called off\u201d section teases. Things don\u2019t turn out as expected; \u201cGod\u2019s plan has to be reworked\u201d (798). A new plan arises. The execution of Jesus changes how everything is perceived. \u201cAll the options are open again\u201d (799).
\nLater he has more thoughts on kingdom and how it is used today: Jesus \u201cdoes not suggest that acts such as those of Zacchaeus bring about God\u2019s reign \u2026 they offer pictures of how things will look when God implements that reign\u2026 But the NT does not talk of John or Jesus or their disciples bringing in God\u2019s reign or establishing it or furthering it or working for it. It is their task to do outrageous things, to go in for crazy gestures, to make wild statements, to tell outlandish stories\u201d (805-6). How outrageous is that?
\nGood thoughts on Jesus as king, the Word embodied and especially on divine surrender, where he appeals to the really fine small book by Richard Bauckham, God Crucified<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>. Here he shows that Jesus\u2019 crucifixion is the sort of thing Yhwh has been doing, in some ways, in the First Testament.
\nThe Postscript is about narrative and history, history and criticism (critical theories), creation and history \u2014 where he calls Genesis 1-2 \u201cimaginative parables\u201d of what is true and what happened.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"