Bo Giertz was a serious biblical scholar who avoided the ivory tower. He studied classics in undergrad before taking up theology in preparation for the ministry. In 1930 he spent time on an archeological dig in Palestine and travelled the country with his exegetical professor Anton Fridrichsen who insisted on “Biblical Realism,” which avoided fundamentalism and yet refused to succumb to higher criticism. In these commentaries, Bo Giertz takes what he learned from a lifetime of such study and application in in sermons and visits with people to open Scripture to anyone who wants to grow in their faith. He never avoids the hard questions concerning the texts, and yet tackles them in such a way as to restore confidence in God’s word. Here, he is concerned with what the text meant to those who first wrote it and heard it so he can deliver the same goods to us today.
Bo Giertz draws upon a lifetime of study in the tradition of “Biblical Realism” to explain the texts of the New Testament in easy-to-understand, down-to-earth language. These expositions of the New Testament are written with a pastoral heart with the layman in mind, and yet offer insight rarely found in the best of academic commentaries. He gets to the meat, always looking to rightly divide the word of truth so that those cut by the law find healing in the gospel with the forgiveness of sins. Bo Giertz (1905-1998) spent his youth as a militant atheists before his conversion in college set him to become an apologist for the Christian faith, a beloved novelist, pastor and bishop in the church of Sweden. These commentaries were written in retirement after a long life carefully studying both the scriptures and the human soul.
The New Testament Devotional Commentary, Volume 1
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Bo Giertz was a serious biblical scholar who avoided the ivory tower. He studied classics in undergrad before taking up theology in preparation for the ministry. In 1930 he spent time on an archeological dig in Palestine and travelled the country with his exegetical professor Anton Fridrichsen who insisted on “Biblical Realism,” which avoided fundamentalism and yet refused to succumb to higher criticism. In these commentaries, Bo Giertz takes what he learned from a lifetime of such study and application in in sermons and visits with people to open Scripture to anyone who wants to grow in their faith. He never avoids the hard questions concerning the texts, and yet tackles them in such a way as to restore confidence in God’s word. Here, he is concerned with what the text meant to those who first wrote it and heard it so he can deliver the same goods to us today.
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1517 Publishing
Paperback
09781945978791
1945978791
Bo Giertz, Bror Erickson
General / adult
REL082000, REL006800
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