How New is the New Testament? Systematic Theology Preface and Acknowledgments

Preface and Acknowledgments

and delight in God’s law—commandments that expose our sinfulness and reveal the glories of God’s grace to us in Christ

It mines the moral teachings of the early church and medieval and Puritan spirituality while addressing a variety of topics

This modern typeset edition of the Works includes four volumes of Perkins’s expositions of Scripture

Honoring God at Table (17:1–16)

How New is the New Testament? Systematic Theology Preface and AcknowledgmentsWhat is so new about the New Testament? In this volume, Donald Hagner tackles the issue of how distinct early Christianity was from the first century Judaism from which it emerged. Hagner counters the current and growing trend in New Testament scholarship of playing down any idea of newness in the New Testament and of viewing the New Testament and Christianity as representing a form of sectarian Judaism. He surveys newness in the entire New Testament