Maturity Team

JRM Declaration of Faith

1. We believe in the Holy Scripture. (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Matthew 5:18)

a. Nature of the Scriptures
b. How we got our Bible (History and Continuity)
i. Writers and Redactors
ii. Preservation
iii. Translation
c. Reading and Relevance
i. Finding and making meaning
ii. The Bible in todays society
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Leicester, 1993.
Dun, James D.G. Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the
Doctrine of the Incarnation 2nd ed. London: SCM Press, 1992.
________. Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earliest
Christianity. Norwich: SCM Press, 2006.
Ehrman, Bart D. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings,
4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Fuller, Reginald H. The Foundations of New Testament Christology, New York: Charles
Scribners Sons, 1965.
Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg, and Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. Introduction to Biblical
Interpretation. Revised and updated. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004.
Lewis, Clive Staples. Mere Christianity.
Westermann, Claus. Elements of Old Testament Theology. Atlanta, Georgia: John Knox Press,
1992.
________. Genesis. New York and London: T&T Clark International, 2004.
Wenham, David, and Steve Walton. Exploring the New Testament. 2nd ed. Vol. One. Downers
Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2011.