A Theology of Matthew: Jesus Revealed as Deliverer, King, and Incarnate Creator (Explorations in Biblical Theology)

by Charles L. Quarles

Publisher:

P&R

, 2013

Overview

A Theology of Matthew explores the identity of Jesus and the call to worship him by surveying Matthew’s theological themes and how they interconnect with the rest of the Bible. Quarles focuses on Matthew’s portrait of Jesus as the savior of sinners, the founder of a new Israel, and the incarnation of the creator.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Matthew’s original readers, however, viewed Moses much more positively. For them, Moses was not primarily a lawgiver. He was a savior, a redeemer, and a deliverer.” (Page 47)

“Repent and repentance refer to a change of mind and heart in which a person realizes the heinousness of his sin, shudders in the face of God’s coming judgment, renounces his sin, and determines, by God’s power, to live as God desires.” (Page 67)

“No manuscript evidence suggests that the gospel ever circulated without a title. The titles are definitely very early” (Page 6)

“Matthew shows that Jesus is like Moses in his infancy, his teaching ministry, his fasting, his miracles, and his transfiguration.” (Page 35)

“Matthew clearly expected his original readers to be familiar with the Old Testament. He anticipated that they would understand the broader context of the Old Testament passages that he quoted and would recognize even subtle allusions to familiar Old Testament texts. Thus, Matthew plainly wrote his gospel primarily for Jewish Christians familiar with the Old Testament from instruction received in the synagogue.” (Page 12)

Product Details

• Title: A Theology of Matthew: Jesus Revealed as Deliverer, King, and Incarnate Creator
• Author: Charles L. Quarles
• Edition: 1st Ed.
• Series: Explorations in Biblical Theology
• Publisher: P&R
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Matthew › Theology; Bible. N.T. Matthew › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9781596381674, 9781596386532, 9781596386549, 1596381671, 1596386533, 1596386541
• Resource ID: LLS:THMTTHWNCRNCRTR
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-20T00:34:32Z

About Charles L. Quarles

Charles Quarles is an experienced pastor, missionary, and theological educator. He served as Senior Pastor of three churches in North Mississippi and East Tennessee for over ten years. He served as a missionary of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Bucharest Romania from 1999 to 2002. He has served as a professor of New Testament and Greek at Clear Creek Baptist Bible College, the Bucharest Baptist Theological Seminary, the University of Bucharest, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and Louisiana College (now Louisiana Christian University). He has served on volunteer mission trips in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tanzania, Turkey, and Cuba.

In addition to many Bible studies, articles in reference works, and reviews, he is the editor or author of a dozen books including The Sermon on the Mount: Restoring Christ’s Message to the Modern Church; The Illustrated Life of Paul; A Theology of Matthew; Matthew in the Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament series; and Matthew in the Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary series. He has two forthcoming books on New Testament textual criticism. He has published research in numerous international journals including New Testament Studies, Novum Testamentum, the Bulletin for Biblical Research, the Bible Translator, and Tyndale Bulletin.

He and his wife Julie have been married since 1989 and have three adult children (Rachael, Hannah, and Joshua) and four grandchildren.