New Testament Theology

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This paper reviews and discusses I. Howard Marshall's book, 'New Testament Theology: Many witnesses: One Gospel'. According to the paper, In 'New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses: One Gospel', Marshall endeavors to show definitively that a common, basic theology can be traced in all New Testament witnesses. The paper further discusses how Marshall also opines about the meaning and religious importance of Christian doctrine generally.

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"While it seems true that, at least according to what Marshall describes in his Preface to New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses: One Gospel (2004), there is indeed a likely basis for seeing a "possible unity", in terms of shared structures and themes of different parts of the New Testament; it is also true that 100 years, even by today's standards, in which human beings tend to live much longer, overall, than in Jesus' day, is still a very long time. Moreover, typical human memory; and intra-personal/generational discourses (and full or partial recollections of them) were and are less-than-perfect: therefore, imperfectly reliable. This was and is true of human memory and also of second and/or-third-hand accounts (or even personal recollections, over time) of human accounts and of any person-to-person discourses, by, about, and for humans. "

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