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https://doi.org/10.32862/k.18.2.6
J. I. Packer’s Use of the New Testament for His Doctrine of Discipleship
Corneliu C. Simuț
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania
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This paper investigates how J. I. Packer, one of the most prominent Evangelical theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries, used the New Testament to build his perspective on discipleship. While a systematic presentation of discipleship is not available in Packer’s works, his numerous references to the term reveal his deep preoccupation with the subject. Hence my decision to trace his steps back to the way he uses the New Testament to devise a holistic understanding of discipleship. To achieve this goal, I took several steps of my own, first to study his general view of the Bible, second to go a bit deeper in the same direction by seeing how he works with the New Testament as the fundamental source for his theology of discipleship, and then – the remaining four steps – have to do with Packer’s actual use of New Testament books for his doctrine of discipleship; in this respect, I read about his thoughts on discipleship as he read about it in the four Gospels, in the epistles (Pauline and otherwise), the Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation. I also did a brief research on what I called Packer’s “two pillars” of discipleship, which he identifies as the nature of and the teaching about discipleship – the former being revealed in the Gospels, and the latter in the epistles. The fact that I went beyond the Gospels and the epistles into a succinct investigation of the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation is merely a natural consequence of my original intention of tracing Packer’s way throughout the entire New Testament for his theology of
discipleship. In the end, though, this study is not merely a search into Packer’s use of the New Testament for his view of discipleship, but also an opportunity to extract some essential features of discipleship which he came across as he studied each literary genre of the New Testament.
Ključne riječi
discipleship; New Testament; Gospels; epistles; Acts of the Apostles; Revelation
Hrčak ID:
322654
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Datum izdavanja:
23.11.2024.
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