Biblical Theology: Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical

by C. Clifton Black

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2024

Overview

An essential collection of C. Clifton Black’s best essays on the theology of the New Testament

Clift Black is well known and widely loved for his exegetical acuity, his theological seriousness, his pastoral kindness, and the most delightful sense of humor in the biblical-studies guild. All these qualities are amply displayed in these thirty essays written across four decades (1983–2023) of his career, including four never before published.

The chapters fall under four main headings: “Horizons” (essays of wider conceptual sweep), “Stopovers” (essays on particular topics or biblical passages), “Feuilletons” (brief essays on subjects in religious, political, or popular culture that intersect with biblical theology), and “Declarations” (essays that originated as sermons, or as thoughts about preaching).

Chapter 1 attempts to define “New Testament theology.” Chapter 30 professes “Jesus Christ Is Lord”—an apt label for this book’s robustly challenging conclusion. Between these bookends, topics include exegesis as prayer, sin and retribution in the Gospels, Mary (mother of Jesus), grief and death, the King James Bible, biblical truth, the kindness of strangers, Johnny Cash, “early Catholicism,” dogs (well, one very good dog), the lectionary, church and ministry, and God’s promise for humanity.

Biblical Theology: Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical represents the fruit of a lifetime of studying, preaching, praying, training pastors, walking in the light, and laughing in the valley of the shadow of death. Black’s keen mind and pastoral heart will inform and charm scholarly and lay readers alike.

Key Features

• Covers topics including religion, politics, and popular culture that intersect with biblical theology
• Represents the fruit of a lifetime of study

Product Details

• Title: Biblical Theology: Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical
• Author: C. Clifton Black
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 508
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Criticism, textual; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible › Quotations
• ISBNs: 9780802884442, 080288444X
• Resource ID: LLS:BBLCLTHCLHMLTCL
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-17T22:21:40Z

About C. Clifton Black

C. Clifton Black, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology, earned his M.Div. from Emory University and his Ph.D. from Duke University. He is interested in New Testament exegesis, theology, and the history of scriptural interpretation, with a focus on the four Gospels. He regularly teaches such varied courses as biblical theology and the practice of ministry, prayer in the New Testament, the Gospel of Mark, major themes in New Testament theology, the biblical and Shakespearean visions, and the parables of Jesus. An ordained United Methodist minister, he serves with John T. Carroll and M. Eugene Boring as editor of The New Testament Library, published by Westminster John Knox Press. Black is also an associate editor of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly and Horizons in Biblical Theology, and a member of The Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton and The American Theological Society.