Biblical Theology by Nick Roark & Robert Cline | Book Review

Biblical Theology: How the Church Faithfully Teaches the Gospel by Nick Roark
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was really helpful. It's one I'll reference in the future. I'm glad I marked it up with a pen! I didn't know what "Biblical Theology" is. Now I do. Here's what I found:

Biblical Theology is a way of reading the Bible in light of the full context of the scriptures as a narrative whole with each individual part ultimately pointing to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This means that while reading a passage of scripture we don’t just take it at face value through the lens of our own modern culture which is much different than that of the author and audience of the biblical text. We also don’t interpret a scripture passage without being careful to read not only the passages before and after it but the whole book it’s contained in and where it fits in the overall timeline of the biblical timeline. Biblical theology uses the Bible as a whole to help you understand your immediate passage, often leveraging ways in which the New Testament authors interpreted the Old Testament. Likewise keeping the whole of the Old Testament in mind while studying or preaching the New Testament will provide you with a vast well of connections that point toward what you read in the New Testament. Instead of only reading one passage of scripture biblical theology has you zoom out to view the Bible as a whole and lets that knowledge inform your immediate passage. Zooming out should also bring to light that all of scripture leads to Jesus.