Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative And Theological Introduction

This textbook on how to read the Gospels well can stand on its own as a guide to reading this New Testament genre as Scripture. It is also ideally suited to serve as a supplemental text to more conventional textbooks that discuss each Gospel systematically. Most textbooks tend to introduce students to historical-critical concerns but may be less adequate for showing how the Gospel narratives, read as Scripture within the canonical framework of the entire New Testament and the whole Bible, yield material for theological reflection and moral edification.

Pennington neither dismisses nor duplicates the results of current historical-critical work on the Gospels as historical sources. Rather, he offers critically aware and hermeneutically intelligent instruction in reading the Gospels in order to hear their witness to Christ in a way that supports Christian application and proclamation.

• Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy
• Four Portraits, One Jesus: A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels
• Pontius Pilate: A Novel
• Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (IVP Bible Dictionary)
• Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt: A Novel
• The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament
• The Fourfold Gospel: A Theological Reading of the New Testament Portraits of Jesus
• Interpreting the Pauline Epistles
• Greek for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek
• From Eden to the New Jerusalem: An Introduction to Biblical Theology