| Grace in the End: A Study in Deuteronomic Theology Contributor(s): McConville, Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0310514215 ISBN-13: 9780310514213 Publisher: Zondervan Academic OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1993 Annotation: The book of Deuteronomy is one of the great theological documents of the Bible. The main lines of its thought can be traced not only in the book itself, but throughout the Old Testament, especially in the historical books from Joshua to 2 Kings--hence the term "Deuteronomic theology." In this book, the first in a series on Studies in the Old Testament Biblical Theology, McConville surveys and evaluates both older and more recent scholarly approaches to Deuteronomic theology. He shows how Israel persistently failed to keep God's covenant by rejecting him and relying on themselves instead. For that reason, God consistently brought his judgment on them, but that was not his final word to them. They survived as a nation only because of God's overpowering grace; there is grace in history in the end. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - General - Religion | Theology - Religion | Biblical Commentary - Old Testament - General |
| Dewey: 230 |
| LCCN: 92027036 |
| Series: Studies in Old Testament Biblical Theology |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.42" W x 8" (0.43 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book of Deuteronomy is one of the great theological documents of the Bible. The main lines of its thought can be traced not only in the book itself, but throughout the Old Testament, especially in the historical books from Joshua to 2 Kings--hence the term "Deuteronomic theology." In this book, the first in a series on Studies in the Old Testament Biblical Theology, McConville surveys and evaluates both older and more recent scholarly approaches to Deuteronomic theology. He shows how Israel persistently failed to keep God's covenant by rejecting him and relying on themselves instead. For that reason, God consistently brought his judgment on them, but that was not his final word to them. They survived as a nation only because of God's overpowering grace; there is grace in history in the end. |
Contributor Bio(s): McConville, Gordon: - J. Gordon McConville is professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and is a member of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University. He is the author of Law and Theology in Deuteronomy and Judgement and Promise: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah. |