The Unity of the Bible: Unfolding God’s Plan for Humanity

by Daniel Fuller

Publisher:

Zondervan Academic

, 2010

Overview

The Unity of the Bible represents Daniel Fuller’s lifelong effort to understand and expound this purpose by seeking the Bible’s answer to questions such as these. It is written especially to equip laypersons to carry out both evangelism and edification, and it will also help all Christians to put the Bible together to grasp “the whole purpose of God” (Acts 20:27)

Key Features

• Follows the inductive method of reasoning
• Provides deeply edifying devotional reading
• Presents an excellent tool to teach lay leaders about God’s unifying work in history

Contents

The Value of the Inquiry

• Evidence for the Bible’s Unity
• The Old Testament Canon and the Bible’s Unity
• The Climax of Prophetic Interventions
• The Emergence of the New Testament Canon
• One’s Future in Hinduism and Buddhism
• The World of Islam

The Foundations of Redemptive History

• An Inductive Study of Genesis 1:1-2:3
• God’s Necessary Work of Being a Trinity
• God’s Free Work of Creation
• The First Step in Responding to God’s Purpose
• The Second Step in Responding to God’s Purpose
• The Fall (Genesis 2:4-3:24)
• The Justness of an Eternal Hell
• The Riches of God’s Mercy From the Cross
• The Near Extinction of the Woman’s Seed
• Protection for the Woman’s Seed

Text

• The Septuagint and Textual Criticism of the Greek Versions – José Manuel Cañas Reíllo
• The Septuagint and Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible – John Screnock
• The Septuagint and Qumran – Gideon R. Kotzé
• The Septuagint and the Major Recensions – Ville Mäkipelto
• The Septuagint and the Secondary Versions – Claude Cox
• The Septuagint and Origen’s Hexapla – Peter J. Gentry
• The Septuagint and the Biblical Canon – John Meade

Israel, the Lesson Book for the Nations

• The Forgiveness of Abraham's Sins
• Abraham’s Faith in God’s Promises
• Abraham’s Persevering Faith
• The Blessings for Abraham’s Seed
• What Was the Purpose of the Law?
• The Jewish Ceremonial Law
• The Kingdom of God in the Old Testament

The Gospel Goes to the World

• 24 Jesus Presents the Kingdom of God
• 25 The Present Realm of God’s Kingdom
• 26 The Conversion of Israel

Praise for The Unity of the Bible

Professor Daniel P. Fuller raises questions concerning the unity of the Bible which few are willing to ask. His interesting findings will provoke serious study of the Bible for all those who seek to edify the church and train men and women for positions of leadership.

Oscar Cullmann

No book besides the Bible has had a greater influence on my life than Daniel Fuller’s Unity of the Bible. When I first read it as a classroom syllabus over twenty years ago, everything began to change.... It changed my life because it is so honest. No hard questions are dodged. No troubling texts are swept under the rug. There is a passion for seeing all of Scripture with no reference to how one part fits with another. Too much academic labor passes for mature scholarship while dealing only piecemeal with the reality of God’s work in redemptive history. Daniel Fuller has given his life to seeing the connections and pursuing the coherence of ‘the whole counsel of God’.

John Piper

A rich mine. . . .the meditation of a lifetime on key biblical passages that represent the biblical message and as such provide the ‘Unity of the Bible.’ If anyone has ever discovered the truth about the relation of Law to Gospel, Daniel Fuller has.

Ralph D. Winter

Product Details

• Title: The Unity of the Bible: Unfolding God's Plan for Humanity
• Author: Daniel Fuller
• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Pages: 512
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780310874126, 0310874122
• Resource ID: LLS:9780310874126
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:51:47Z

About Daniel Fuller

Daniel P. Fuller is professor emeritus of hermeneutics at Fuller Theological Seminary where he taught from 1953 to 1993 and served as Dean of the School of Theology from 1963 to 1972. In addition, he served as president of the Gospel Broadcasting Association and the Fuller Evangelistic Association. Daniel is the son of Charles E. Fuller, co-founder with Harold Ockenga of Fuller Seminary.

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