Book Review: Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture

Information about the book

Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture by Constantine R. Campbell and Jonathan T. Pennington.  Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2020.  Cokesbury / Amazon

Summary

From Amazon: This survey textbook by two respected New Testament scholars is designed to meet the needs of contemporary evangelical undergraduates. The book effectively covers the New Testament books and major topics in the New Testament, assuming no prior academic study of the Bible. The authors pay attention to how the New Testament documents fit together as a canonical whole that supplements the Old Testament to make up the Christian Scriptures. They also show how the New Testament writings provide basic material for Christian doctrine, spirituality, and engagement with culture. Chapters can be assigned in any order, making this an ideal textbook for one-semester courses at evangelical schools.

Impressions

I purchased this book and read assigned chapters for a class I took from BeADisciple.  The class was called Reading the New Testament with Fresh Eyes - I'll be posting a class review soon. This text was a required purchase.

It is organized into 30 chapters.  The first 5 and the last one are general chapters covering background information that is helpful as one reads through the New Testament.  The middle 24 chapters are each written around one or more New Testament Chapters.

I found the information to be well presented and helpful in the work we were doing, and I imagine that it will be a resource to which I will return when preparing a bible study or sermon. I recommend it.

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