Over the holidays the new festschrift for Howard Marshall became available through Amazon. It is titled New Testament Theology in Light of the Church’s Mission: Essays in Honor of I. Howard Marshall, and I had the pleasure of co-editing it with Jon Laansma and Grant Osborne. In light of Howard’s profound influence on New Testament studies and his bolstering of evangelical scholarship, through his writing, teaching and mentoring, we thought it appropriate that a second festschrift be presented to him. The title reflects an emphasis in Howard’s work- the exposition of the New Testament ought to advance the missionary endeavor of Christ’s kingdom.
Though Howard and I differ on any number of topics, I have had the pleasure of observing his love for the church, his humility, and his passion for evangelism. He has been a helpful example to me, and it was a pleasure to write a biographical sketch for this volume.
We were pleased to have such a gathering of respected scholars contribute to this volume. I have pasted in here the table of contents so you can see the essays and contributors to the volume.
I. Howard Marshall: An Appreciation
Ray F. Van NesteA Bibliography of I. Howard Marshall
The Gospel for All Peoples: Method, Integrity, Translation
Chapter 1 – Methodology of Evangelism in the New Testament: Some Preliminary Reflections
James D. G. DunnChapter 2 – Freedom from the Law Only for Gentiles? A Non-Supersessionist Alternative to Mark Kinzer’s “Postmissionary Messianic Judaism”
Craig L. BlombergChapter 3 – Hearing Voices: The Foreign Voice of Paul under the Stress of Contemporary English Localization
Philip H. TownerChapter 4 – The Son of Man in Hebrews 2:6: A Dilemma for Bible Translators
Richard T. FranceGospels and Acts
Chapter 5 – The Gospel before the Gospels: The Preached Core Narrative
Darrell L. BockChapter 6 – Matthew 5:17-20 and “A Tale of Two Missions”?
Esther Yue L. NgChapter 7 – Revisiting the Johannine Water Motif: Jesus, Ritual Cleansing and Two Purification Pools in Jerusalem
Gary M. BurgeChapter 8 – The Purpose of Luke-Acts: Reaching a Consensus
Mark L. StraussChapter 9 – Neglecting Widows and Serving the Word? Acts 6:1-7 as a Test Case for a Missional Hermeneutic
Joel B. GreenChapter 10 – Luke: Historian, Rhetor, and Theologian. Historiography and the Theology of the Speeches in Acts
Gene L. GreenPaul
Chapter 11 – The Missionary Character of 1 Corinthians
Brian S. RosnerChapter 12 – Church Membership and the idiwthV in the Early Corinthian Community
Andrew D. ClarkeChapter 13 – Old Testament Paradoxes in Galatians: Rethinking the Theology of Galatians
Maureen W. YeungChapter 14 – Missio Dei and Imitatio Dei in Ephesians
Roy E. CiampaChapter 15 – An Ideal Missionary Prayer Letter: Reflections on Paul’s Mission Theology as Expressed in Philippians
Alistair I. WilsonChapter 16 – Paul’s Missionary Preaching in 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, with an Apocalyptic Addition from 2 Thessalonians
Anthony C. ThiseltonChapter 17 – “Prayer” and the Public Square: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 and Christian Political Engagement
Greg A. CouserChapter 18 – Schlatter on the Pastorals: Mission in the Academy
Robert W. YarbroughChapter 19 – “Nobody knows de trouble I seen”: Hardship Lists in Paul and Elsewhere
Paul EllingworthHebrews and Revelation
Chapter 20 – Hebrews and the Mission of the Earliest Church
Jon C. LaansmaChapter 21 – The Mission to the Nations in the Book of Revelation
Grant R. OsborneChapter 22 – Early Christian Mission and Christian Identity in the Context of the Ethnic, Social, and Political Affiliations in Revelation
Eckhard J. Schnabel