Why Biblical Theology? with Nancy Guthrie

Written By Nancy Guthrie
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Today, Nancy Guthrie shares her excitement about biblical theology and why it matters for us in our everyday lives. God is the author of all of Scripture, and knowing the themes within the big story helps us to love Christ more!

 

NOTES & QUOTES

“Biblical theology is a way of understanding and approaching the Bible that recognizes that even though the Bible is made up of various kinds of literature and was written over centuries by 40 human authors, it is really telling one cohesive story about a person. About what God is doing in the world through Christ. And biblical theology recognizes that the Bible has a number of central themes that span from Genesis to Revelation, and each of those themes serves to communicate a coherent message about the person and work of Christ.”

“As you're looking for these things that connect, you're not giving a summary on what the Bible teaches about this theme. You're telling a story that develops. That's the key word: develops.”

“If the divine author of this book has seen to write into his book these particular themes, then we should try to understand why he did that, because the themes help us get to his point, rather than take what he writes and make it about what we want it to be about.”

“These themes are helping me to see the beauty, the necessity for, the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. But each of these themes helps me to see it from a slightly different angle, and you know what that does? That causes me to love Christ more, in a way I didn’t yesterday because I didn’t see this beauty of his quite this way yesterday before I could see it through the lens of this theme.”

“As we see the stories we see how they all resolve in the second coming of Christ and his establishments of the new heavens and the new earth that only causes us to long for him more and not settle for the way things are in the here and now.”

 
 
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  1. What is Biblical Theology? Why is it important?

  2. Talk through some cautions when studying Biblical Theology. Name some safeguards that could prevent you from falling into a ditch during your study.

  3. Name the major difference between word affiliation and biblical theology themes.

  4. What are some themes mentioned that stick out to you that you might like to study in the future?

  5. What might you do or implement based on what you learned in this week’s episode?

 

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Nancy Guthrie

Nancy Guthrie teaches the Bible at her home church, Cornerstone Presbyterian Church, in Franklin, Tennessee, as well as at conferences around the country and internationally, including through her Biblical Theology Workshop for Women. She is the author of numerous books and the host of the Help Me Teach the Bible podcast from The Gospel Coalition. She and her husband founded Respite Retreats for couples who have faced the death of a child, and they’re cohosts of the GriefShare video series.

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