#205 Why Every Christian Should Study Biblical Theology, with Dr. Andreas Kostenberger
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 2 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Pastors, thoughtful Christians, and students of Scripture must learn how to carefully read and understand the Bible, but it can be difficult to know where to start! In this episode, Andreas J. Kostenberger explains how to interpret Scripture from three effective viewpoints: canonical, thematic, and ethical. We discuss how Biblical Theology is arranged book by book from the Old Testament (using the Hebrew order) through the New Testament, and how this differs from systematic theology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core |
| 0:13.2 | beliefs of historic Christianity, discernous counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, |
| 0:18.7 | kindness, and truth. |
| 0:20.5 | And one of the ways we can get out what the gospel actually is is knowing, reading, understanding, |
| 0:26.0 | and interpreting our Bibles correctly. |
| 0:28.8 | And that's why I'm so excited to bring you this conversation today with Dr. Andreas |
| 0:32.6 | Kostinberger, who's one of my favorite biblical scholars. |
| 0:35.7 | He's a New Testament scholar who has just come out with a big tome. |
| 0:39.6 | It's all 800 pages or so on biblical theology, a canonical, thematic, and ethical approach. |
| 0:45.7 | And some highlights of this conversation for me was when he walked us through the history |
| 0:49.3 | of how the church has typically done theology. |
| 0:52.4 | And when liberal theology came in in the late 1800s or the 1900s, the effect that had |
| 0:57.5 | on how people did theology, I also appreciated his practical tips on making connections between |
| 1:04.7 | the Old Testament and the New Testament, understanding the worldview of the biblical authors and |
| 1:10.2 | the intent of the authors. |
| 1:11.9 | So this is just a great conversation. |
| 1:13.8 | If you're unfamiliar with Dr. Kostinberger, he's the theologian in residence at Fellowship |
| 1:18.4 | Raleigh Church. |
| 1:19.7 | And he's the author, editor, or translator of over 60 books. |
| 1:24.3 | And he served as editor of the journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. |
| 1:29.6 | So without any further ado, here is Andreas Kostinberger. |
| 1:33.2 | Well, Dr. Kostinberger, it's so great to have you back on the podcast for anyone who is |
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