Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Define “biblical theology” and locate it within related disciplines

• Identify various ways of organizing NT biblical theology

• Discuss the speaker’s organizing principle for NT biblical theology

• Compare and contrast the old and new realms of salvation history

• Summarize the debate on the nature of justification in NT theology

• Describe elements of the NT perspective on Christian ethics

• Discuss the NT perspective on the church and its practices

• Summarize the NT perspective on the parousia

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Locating Biblical Theology

• History of Biblical Theology

• Recent Emphases in Biblical Theology

• Horizons of Biblical Theology

• Looking Up Biblical Theology with the Reference Box

• Blending the Horizons

• Exegesis and Theology

• Understanding Biblical Theology

• Issues in Theology: Canon

• Issues in Theology: Organization

• Issues in Theology: The Center

• Approaches to the New Testament

• Using the Factbook and Searching the Logos Library

• Genres: The Gospels

• Genres: The Gospels and Jesus

• Genre: Acts, Paul, and the General Epistles

• Studying Paul’s Missionary Journeys with Timelines and the Atlas Tool

• Genre: The Book of Revelation

Unit 2: The Old Testament in New Testament Theology

• The New Testament Use of the Old, Part 1

• Searching for Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament

• The New Testament Use of the Old, Part 2

• “Realm” as Organizing Principle

Unit 3: Fundamental Structures of New Testament Theology

• The Last Days

• The Kingdom of God

• The Spirit of God

• Using the Parallel Passages Feature to Find Connections in Scripture

• The Good News

• Studying “Gospel” with the Bible Word Study Tool

Unit 4: The Center of the New Realm

• New Testament Titles for Jesus

• Messiah

• Son of Man

• Israel

• The Ultimate Human

• Lord

• God (“Theos”)

• How Jesus Came to Be Viewed as God

Unit 5: Inauguration of the New Realm

• Models of the Atonement

• The Cross and the Gospels

• The Cross and the Early Church

• The Cross and Paul: Penal Substitution

• Performing a Bible Word Study on the Word “Messiah”

• The Cross and Paul: Reconciliation

• The Cross and Hebrews: Sacrifice and Presentation

• The Cross and Christus Victor

• The Cross and Revelation

• Understanding the Atonement

• Resurrection and the New Realm

Unit 6: The Old Realm

• Predicament and Solution

• The Spirit World

• The World and Sin

• Adam’s Sin and All People

• The Nature of Human Beings

• The Effects of Sin

• The Law in the Old Realm

• The Law in the New Testament

Unit 7: Entering the New Realm

• God’s Grace

• God’s Election

• Conversion and Initiation

• Repentance and Faith

• Searching for a Specific Greek Phrase with Greek Lemmas

• Following Jesus

• The Language of Justification

• The Righteousness of God

• The Reformation View of Justification

• An Introduction to the New Perspective on Paul

• Critique of the New Perspective

• N. T. Wright’s View on Justification

• Rethinking Forensic Justification

• Rethinking Justification by Faith Alone

• Rethinking “Already/Not Yet” Justification

• Comparing Bible Translations of Galatians 5:5

• Integrating James and Paul

Unit 8: Living in the New Realm

• The Overlap of the Ages

• Dead to Sin and Alive to Christ

• The Old and New Man

• Life in the Spirit: John’s Gospel

• Life in the Spirit: Paul’s Letters

• Ethics and the Kingdom

• An Inner Transformation

• The Role of the Old Testament Law

• Studying the Ten Commandments

• Matthew 5 and the Law

• The Shape of the Christian Life: Sanctification

• The Shape of the Christian Life: Sexual Practice

• Love in Action: Philemon

• Blessed Are the Poor

• Christians in Society

Unit 9: The People of the New Realm

• Israel and the Church

• Israel and the Church: The Pattern and an Exception

• “Church” in the New Testament

• Images for the Church

• Water Baptism

• The Lord’s Supper

• Spiritual Gifts

• Creating a Custom Passage Guide

• Offices in the Church

• Church Organization in the Pastoral Epistles

• Women and Ministry

Unit 10: The Consummation of the New Realm

• The Parousia

• The Olivet Discourse: Matthew 24

• Rapture and Resurrection

• Judgment of Unbelievers

• Judgment and Believers

• The Millennium and the Eternal State

• The Destiny of Creation

• Using the Text Converter Tool

Conclusion

• Course Summary

Details

• Title: NT305 New Testament Theology

• Instructor: Douglas Moo

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 12