Missing Lenses offers non-specialist biblical readers a
concisely written, yet amazingly informative text from an
evangelical, Reformed perspective concerning a major issue in New
Testament Studies: the recovery of the corporate, Hebraic backdrop
under-girding earliest Christian thought. Serious Bible study
participants from many traditions will enjoy engaging with this
volume.
- Dr Florence Morgan Gillman, University of San Diego, CA,
USAHolland's latest book is a lay-level treatment of
his more academic work, Contours of Pauline Theology. Using the
familiar metaphor of "lenses" through which one interprets the
biblical storyline, Holland suggests that Western biblical
interpreters have primarily been reading the Bible through the
wrong lenses . . . "as describing individual experience and
personal morality". It's like "looking through the wrong end of a
telescope". Furthermore, these Western lenses have been shaped by
Greek thought, particularly dualism, and this focus has obscured
clear references to the Old Testament.
- Mark Baker, Books at a
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