Known by God

Brian S. Rosner is Principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia https://www.ridley.edu.au/. Previously he taught at the University of Aberdeen and Moore Theological College.  He holds degrees from Sydney University and Dallas Theological Seminary and has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.  Brian is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, the Pillar commentary on 1 Corinthians (with Roy E. Ciampa), The Consolations of Theology, Greed as Idolatry, Paul and the Law, and How to Find Yourself: Why Looking Inward is Not the Answer. He is married to Natalie and has four children, a son-in-law and two grandchildren.Jonathan Lunde (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at Talbot School of Theology of Biola University. He is coeditor (with Kenneth Berding) of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament and has contributed articles to The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels and the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Jon and his wife, Pamela, have three children and reside in Brea, California.

“Every last page of Brian Rosner’s Known by God is filled with careful, convincing exegesis of both testaments of the Christian Bible. But even more striking is how this exegesis is interwoven with the author’s disarming self-disclosure, keen pastoral insight, charitable engagement with contemporary literature and culture, and infectious zeal for gospel proclamation. It is that combination that marks this book as a wonderful example of the best of distinctively evangelical biblical theology.”

• Section One: Queuing the Questionsi.Personal Questionsii.Postmodernism – authenticity, mobility, etc iii.Unsatisfying Answers – career, relationships, possessions, finding yourself, etcSection Two: Arriving at Answers1.Anthropological terms – spirit, soul, mind, inner person, old and new humanity, etc2.Known by God – Jewish background, terminology, relationship to image of God, adoption, etc3.Kindred Ideas – the book of God, naming and not naming, remembered by God, seen by God, etc4.Memory – Passover, Lord’s Supper, collective memory in forming identity, etc5.Destiny – my life is hidden with Christ in God, the time is short, etc6.Christology – Christ is known by God at his baptism, transfiguration, in the FG, etc7.The Cross – as forging my identitySection Three: Reflecting on Relevance8.Personal: Significance, Humility, Comfort, Moral Direction9.Community: Bioethics and the Disabled, Children, the Church (liturgy and leading services)