"Be thankful" (Colossians 3:15) is a recurring exhortation in the letters of the apostle Paul. No other New Testament writer gives such a sustained emphasis on thanksgivingāand yet, major modern studies of Paul fail to wrestle with it.David Pao aims to rehabilitate this theme in this comprehensive and accessible study, a New Studies in Biblical Theology volume. He shows how, for Paul, thanksgiving is grounded in the covenantal traditions of salvation history. To offer thanks to God is to livea life of worship and to anticipate the future acts of God, all in submission to the lordship of Christ. Ingratitude to God is idolatry. Thanksgiving functions as a link between theology, including eschatology, and ethics.Here Pao provides clear insights into the passion of an apostle who never fails to insist on the significance of both the gospel message and the response this message demands.Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology arecreative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.
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Biblical StudiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Titles in this series
- Title Page
- Contents
- Series preface
- Author's preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Thanksgiving asĀ God-centredness
- 2 Thanksgiving within theĀ covenantal traditions
- 3 Thanksgiving andĀ covenantal history
- 4 AĀ life ofĀ thanksgiving
- 5 Thanksgiving andĀ theĀ future
- 6 Ingratitude
- Appendix: Pauline thanksgiving andĀ theĀ Greco-Roman benefaction system
- Bibliography
- Index ofĀ modern authors
- Index ofĀ biblical references andĀ ancient sources
- Index ofĀ subjects
- Notes
- Praise forĀ Thanksgiving
- About theĀ author
- More Titles from InterVarsity Press
- Copyright
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