{"id":208,"date":"2005-09-07T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/09\/07\/the-new-testament-and-the-people-of-god\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:50:16","slug":"the-new-testament-and-the-people-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/09\/07\/the-new-testament-and-the-people-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Testament and the People of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Presently I am doing a very hard task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am reading from the very first page with the intention of getting to the last page, Dr. Wright&#8217;s book, The New Testament and the People of God. This book is a lot of work. The first 144 pages of the book are prelimary to the tast. They go over Wright&#8217;s methodology. If you buy into his methodology &#8211; and it&#8217;s hard not to buy into it &#8211; then most of the rest will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The philosophical terms are hard to follow, namely that of critical realism as the proper foundational method of reading the New Testament. But, again, they seem quite sound. I&#8217;d be interested in hearing from any philosophy majors out there on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presently I am doing a very hard task. I am reading from the very first page with the intention of getting to the last page, Dr. Wright&#8217;s book, The New Testament and the People of God. This book is a lot of work. The first 144 pages of the book are prelimary to the tast. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}