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The Gospel Crisis and American Evangelicals Contents ARTICLES The Gospel of Jesus Christ: Its Meaning, Implications, and Modern Understanding ........................................................................................................ 149 STR Editor The King Jesus Gospel ......................................................................................... 153 STR Interviews Dr. Scot McKnight The Gospel Crisis and American Evangelicals ................................................. 161 Harry Lee Poe Victory, Atonement, Restoration, and Response: The Shape of the New Testament Canon and the Holistic Gospel Message ....................................... 177 Matthew Emerson Preaching Old Testament Law to New Testament Christians ....................... 195 Daniel I. Block One More Look at Martha’s “Perfect” Statement in John 11:27 ................... 223 Francis M. Macatangay Be Holy: A Sermon on 1 Pet. 1:13-21 ................................................................ 239 J.D. Greear The Bible and its Long and Variegated Reception in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, in Literature, the Visual Arts, Music and Film: A Presentation and Review of the First Volumes of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009–) ...................................................................... 251 Christoph W. Stenschke BOOK REVIEWS Khaled Anatolios. Retrieving Nicaea, The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine ................................................................................................... 259 David S. Hogg James Bollhagen. Ecclesiastes .................................................................................. 261 Daniel J. Estes J. R. Daniel Kirk, Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? A Narrative Approach to the Problem of Pauline Christianity ......................................................................... 262 Timothy Gombis John Goldingay. Key Questions about Biblical Interpretation: Old Testament Answers ............................................................................................. 264 Josh Mathews Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship .......................................................................................................... 266 Bruce R. Ashford Matthew Levering. Predestination, Biblical and Theological Paths .......................... 267 David S. Hogg Richard Bauckham. The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation.................................................................................................................. 269 Andrew J. Spencer Caitlin Carenen. The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel ................................................................................................................... 271 Philip O. Hopkins Paul J. Griffiths. Song of Songs ............................................................................... 273 Brian P. Gault Wayne Flynt. Keeping the Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives .................. 275 Brent J. Aucoin Craig S. Keener. Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts ............ 277 Rich Holland Robin M. Jensen. Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions ........................................................................................ 278 Bryan Litfin Timothy George (editor). Evangelicals and Nicene Faith: Reclaiming the Apostolic Witness ................................................................................................. 280 Matthew Emerson Suzanne McDonald. Re-Imaging Election: Divine Election as Representing God to Others and Others to God............................................................................... 282 Ken Keathley Mark Coppenger, Apologetics for Contemporary Christians: Pushing Back Against Cultural and Religious Critics ....................................................................... 283 Bruce A. Little Darrell L. Bock. A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized for All Nations ............................................................................................ 285 Thomas R. Schreiner Tremper Longman III. Introducing the Old Testament .......................................... 286 Richard D. Patterson Gordon J. Wenham. Psalms as Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically ................ 288 David W. Jones BibleWorks 9.0 ....................................................................................................... 290 Shawn C. Madden Jon C. Laansma, Grant Osborne, and Ray Van Neste (eds.), New Testament Theology in Light of the Church’s Mission: Essays in Honor of I. Howard Marshall ............................................................................................... 291 Michael F. Bird T. Desmond Alexander. From Paradise to Promised Land: An Introduction to the Pentateuch ..................................................................................... 294 Joshua E. Williams Richard Marsden, E. Ann Matter (eds.). The New Cambridge History of the Bible: The Bible from 600 to 1450 ................................................................... 295 Christoph Stenschke G. K. Beale. A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New. ......................................................................................... 299 Matthew Y. Emerson STR 3/2 (Winter 2012) 149–51 The Gospel of Jesus Christ: Its Meaning, Implications, and Modern Understanding STR Editor Introduction Advent marks the time in the Christian calendar where the Church cele- brates the coming of Christ. We prepare our hearts and minds for the reality of the incarnation of Jesus in his world: “the Word became flesh and dwelled among us,” says the beloved disciple (John 1:14). The Gospel of Matthew announces Jesus’ coming and unveils the meaning of this event: Jesus is the king who will be the Savior of the world. He will be called “Immanuel,” which is translated “God is with us” (Matt. 1:23). The Gospel of Luke pre- sents the announcement, which is given to Mary rather than Joseph, and re- veals that the Christ is in the royal line of King David; he will have a kingdom that will never end (Luke 1:33). It is no wonder that Jesus comes preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God. The King has come! The messiah has made his entrance into the world to begin the redemptive work that God has anointed and appointed him to do (Luke 4:16-21). In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus’ preaching ministry begins with the paradigmatic proclamation of the gospel: Jesus came “proclaiming the good news [gospel] of God. ‘The time has come,’ he said. ‘The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news’!” (Mark 1:14-15). Those who hear the gospel message are called to respond in repentance and belief. Repentance is necessary because as one hears the good news of the kingdom, one begins to recognize that his or her own personal “king- dom” is an empty phantom. One must turn away from one’s own kingdom and turn towards the reign and rule of the living God. And belief is essential, as the gospel of the kingdom has a particular shape: one submits to the vision of God and his reign and rule as disclosed in the Old Testament story. One submits to what God is doing redemptively in and through Israel and climac- tically in the true Davidic King: Jesus the Messiah. Advent opens our eyes to the beauty of God’s gospel. Yet the gospel of Jesus Christ remains, unfortunately, unclear within the Church. It is a “trade-term” amongst Christians today. One sees “gospel- centered” churches, “gospel-choirs,” “gospel-tabernacles,” “gospel-driven” lives, and even a “gospel coalition.” “Gospel” is thrown about like a mantra or held onto tightly like a totem. The term peppers sermons and speakers invoke it, often without explanation, as a way of activating the Church into action. The “gospel” can be bandied about in the Church in many ways! The danger is that “gospel” becomes such a used (and perhaps abused) word that tragically, for many Christians, it becomes an empty word. This indeed would be a tragedy! So it is appropriate that some, like Matt Chandler, have called 150 SOUTHEASTERN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW those within the Church to think and re-think about the all-too-familiar word, “gospel,” and its implications for life.1 For those outside of the Church, the gospel is irrelevant and ignored. Lesslie Newbigin prophetically envisioned this reality long ago. The challenge for the Church is how to communicate the truth of the gospel in a world that is indifferent to its message: “The gospel is news of what has happened [in and through Jesus Christ]. The problem of communicating it in a pluralist society is that it simply disappears into the undifferentiated ocean of information. It represents one opinion among millions of others. It cannot be ‘the truth,’ since in a pluralist society truth is not one but many.”2 Yet in the face of this, the world is confronted with the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Its very force, as Newbigin maintains, is that it is true and that it is “public truth.”3 A pressing challenge for the Church today lies in her em- brace of this public truth, the good news message that reaches as far and wide as God’s kingdom. The Present Volume The present volume of Southeastern Theological Review (STR) offers one avenue to address this challenge. STR engages the theme of “the gospel” in order to provide greater clarity and nuance on its meaning and implications. The first
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