The 2007 JETS editorial reflects on and celebrates 50 years of publication of the journal.
Review: Early Christian Mission
The publication of the present volume in English constitutes a major event in the missiological exploration of early Christianity (the work originally appeared in a one-volume German edition in 2002 and was translated by the author himself). A full century after Adolf von Harnack’s Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten,… Read More
Review: From Messiah to Preexistent Son
The present study is a slightly revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Aberdeen under the supervision of I. Howard Marshall. The review will provide a reasonably detailed summary of the contents of each chapter and then analyze the significance of Lee’s work for scholarship on the subject.
Baptism in the Gospels
“Baptism in the Gospels,” in Believers Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ (ed. Thomas R. Schreiner and Shawn D. Wright; Nashville: B & H, 2007), 11-34. The purpose of the present chapter is to investigate the material on baptism in the four canonical Gospels. This will take on the form of a narrative… Read More
Response: Progress and Regress in Recent Johannine Scholarship: Reflections upon the Road Ahead
“Response: Progress and Regress in Recent Johannine Scholarship: Reflections upon the Road Ahead,” in What We Have Heard from the Beginning: The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies (ed. Tom Thatcher; Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007), 105-7. This essay addresses two questions raised by D. A. Carson: (1) Why do so many probe the historical… Read More