List of Contributors.
List of Abbreviations.
Preface.
Foreword by Rowan Williams.
1. History and Theology in New Testament Studies: John Ashton
(Oxford University).
2. Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspective: John Barton
(Oxford University).
3. Apocalypticism and New Testament Theology: Adela Yarbro
Collins (Yale University).
4. New Testament Interpretation as Interpersonal Communion: The
Case for a Socio-Theological Hermeneutics: Philip Esler (University
of St Andrews).
5. The Nature of New Testament Theology: Morna Hooker (Cambridge
University).
6. Does a Theology of the Canonical Gospels Make Sense? Luke
Timothy Johnson (Emory University).
7. Paul in New Testament Theology: Leander E. Keck (Yale
University).
8. The Contribution of Reception History to a New Testament
Theology: Ulrich Luz (University of Berne, Switzerland).
9. Women in Early Christianity: The Challenge to a New Testament
Theology: Margaret Y. Mac Donald (St Francis Xavier University).
10. Deutero-Paulinism, Pseudonymity and the Canon: John Muddiman
(Mansfield College, Oxford).
11. Towards an Alternative to New Testament Theology:
’Individual Eschatology’ as an Example: Heikki
Räisänen (University of Helsinki).
12. ’Action is the Life of All’: New Testament
Theology and Practical Theology: Christopher Rowland (Queens
College, Oxford).
13. Theory of Primitive Christian Religion and New Testament
Theology: an Evolutionary Essay: Gerd Theissen (University of
Heidelberg, Germany).
14. Does the ’Historical Jesus’ belong within a
’New Testament Theology’? Christopher Tuckett (Oxford
University).
15. The Gospel of John and New Testament Theology: Francis
Watson (University of Aberdeen).
16. The Theology of the Cross and the Quest for a Doctrinal
Norm: Michael Wolter (University of Bonn, Germany).
17. The Trinity and the New Testament: Frances Young (University
of Birmingham).
Index

Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland’s Professor of
Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow
of Queen’s College, Oxford. His previous publications include
The Open Heaven (1982), The Book of Revelation
(1998), Christian Origins (revised edition, 2002),
Radical Christian Writings: A Reader (Blackwell, 2002), and,
with Judith Kovacs, Revelation (Blackwell, 2004).
Christopher Tuckett is Professor of New Testament Studies
in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College,
Oxford. His previous publications include The Revival of the
Griesbach Hypothesis (1983), Reading the New Testament
(1986), Q and the History of Early Christianity (1996),
Luke (1996) and Christology and the New Testament
(2001).