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    Journal for the Study of

    the New Testament


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    Book Reviews : Frank E. Gaebelein (ed.), The


    Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 9: John by
    M.C. Tenney, and Acts by R.C. Longenecker.
    Zondervan, 1981. Pp. 573. $19.95
    B.D. Chilton
    Journal for the Study of the New Testament 1984; 7; 125
    DOI: 10.1177/0142064X8400702018
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    125
    Robert C. Gregg and Dennis E. Groh,
    SCM, 1981. Pp. xiv + 209. £12.50.

    Early Arianism: A

    View

    of Salvation.

    The debate between Arianism and Christian orthodoxy, the authors maintain,
    turned on competing conceptual schemes and competing notions of salvation.
    Orthodox theologians worked within the framework of being and essence;
    the Arians stressed the language of becoming, willing and electing. Grace in
    Arian theology meant not so much transference into a stabilized order of
    redeemed creation, as that which empowers the believer for a process of
    moral advance. Christology, therefore, is also viewed within a framework of
    process rather than being. One special point of interest for New Testament
    studies is the authors attempt to show how readily certain New Testament
    texts (especially in the Epistle to the Hebrews) may be thought to lend
    support to Arian ideas when they are viewed from within an Arian

    framework of thought.
    B.E. Thiering, Redating the Teacher of Righteousness (Theological Explorations:
    Australian and New Zealand Studies in Theology and Religion). 1979.

    Pp. 234.
    In the first part of her study the author seeks to challenge many of the most
    widely accepted conclusions, claiming to give rather more value to the

    internal or textual evidence than has yet been done. In the second part she
    examines the Teachers doctrine and its setting, and in the third and final
    part attempts a reconstruction which would place the Teacher of Righteousness
    around AD 26-30. In spite of the difficulties, she does not exclude the
    possibility of identifying him with John the Baptist.
    Frank E. Gaebelein (ed.), The Expositors Bible Commentary, Volume 9: John
    Acts by R.C. Longenecker. Zondervan, 1981. Pp. 573.
    by M.C. Tenney, and

    $19.95.
    While Merrill C.

    Tenneys commentary on John is designed primarily to


    the
    Christian
    pastor, Richard C. Longenecker engages more fully with
    help
    current issues relating to Acts in New Testament studies. In a substantial
    introduction he reviews most of the basic issues carefully, and for this reason
    it is all the more noteworthy that he himself is willing to defend the tradition
    that the author of Acts was Luke the physician, and to argue for a date as
    early as AD 64. He argues that Acts was written for several purposes among
    which a kerygmatic purpose and conciliatory intent are prominent. The
    commentary on the text takes into account the needs of the Christian pastor,
    but regular and frequent inter-action with recent literature on Acts extends
    its usefulness also to the student.
    B.D.

    Chilton, Department of Biblical Studies, The University of Sheffield

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