Wie können Christen wachsen? Kaum jemand stellt in Frage, dass die Bibel uns dazu aufruft, in unserem Glaubensleben zu wachsen. Aber die Erklärung, wie das genau vor sich gehen soll, ist oftmals vage. Dane Ortlund lenkt den Blick der Gläubigen auf Christus. Er macht deutlich, dass der Weg der Heiligung nicht darin besteht, mehr zu tun oder besser zu werden, sondern tiefer in die wunderbaren Wahrheiten des Evangeliums einzutauchen, die für uns gelten, seit wir mit ihm vereint wurden. Dabei stützt sich Ortlund auf den Erkenntnisschatz von Persönlichkeiten aus der gesamten Kirchengeschichte. Er ermutigt seine Leser, im Kampf gegen die Sünde auf Jesus zu sehen, sich auf seine Gnade zu stellen und ihre unbesiegbare Identität in Christus auszuleben.
The article draws attention to a neglected passage in the current recovery of biblical-theological sensitivity to the Bible: Jeremiah 33:14-26. Drawing out six intercanonical themes that cluster here as God promises at the conclusion to the Book of Consolation to restore his people, the article suggests that this text forms a unique whole-Bible intersection. The article begins with an introduction clarifying what is (and what is not) being argued before moving on to point out the neglect of Jeremiah 33 in biblical theology. The heart of the article reflects on the six intercanonical themes that emerge. Two objections are handled before the article draws to a close.
This article considers James Dunn's understanding of Phinehas's zeal. Dunn has given special attention to Jewish zeal in his writings, and this study considers speci¿-cally his view of Phinehan zeal in Numbers 25, Sirach 45, and 1 Maccabees 2. Dunn argues that the focus of this zeal is its ethnic or nationalistic dimension; it is a zeal for Israel's set-apartness from the nations (horizontal). Upon a close reading of these three texts, it is concluded that Dunn makes primary what is in fact secondary. The focus of these texts is instead obedience to God through Torah-loyalty (vertical).
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