Canon, Covenant and Christology: Rethinking Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel, Vol. 51 (New Studies in Biblical Theology) studynotes This all-important question finds its

This all-important question finds its answer in three letters from the apostle John

says Michael Allen

it has received little sustained attention over the past half-century of scholarship

In their study they find patterns that seek to account in some way for the distinct personhood and divinity of Father

Canon, Covenant and Christology: Rethinking Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel, Vol. 51 (New Studies in Biblical Theology) studynotes This all-important question finds its"All Scripture is breathed out by God" (2 Timothy 3: 16). From Paul's epistles the divine inspiration of Scripture may be confidently affirmed. However, on turning to Jesus and the Gospels, it is difficult to find such an explicit approach. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Matthew Barrett argues that Jesus and the apostles have just as convictional a doctrine of Scripture as Paul or Peter, but it will only be discovered if the Gospels