Recently Published – Acts Commentary
The Acts Of The Apostles – Part of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series (Grand Rapids/Cambridge; Nottingham: Apollos, 2009). Click to read an excerpt from the preface…
‘Enriched in Every Way’
How should gifts and ministries be exercised in the Church today? Check out B. S. Rosner (ed.), The Wisdom of the Cross. Exploring 1 Corinthians (Nottingham: Apollos, 2011), 134-163.
Worship, Edification and Theological Method
Is worship primarily what happens on Sundays when we do specific activities of singing, praying, offering, confessing, and so on? Or is worship primarily the way we live all of life for the honor of the Lord in such a way that Sunday gatherings are no more “worship” than any other time of the week?
Thanks for taking time to visit my website. I hope that by progressively putting up articles, lectures and sermons I may be able to develop and extend what I have written before, while conversing with those who are interested in similar topics.
Updates
Transformed by God
Transformed by God: New Covenant Life and Ministry has now been published by IVP in the UK. It will soon be published by InterVarsity Press in the US. This book is intended to be a sequel to Possessed by God.
Graham Cole, Anglican Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, has kindly made this comment in reviewing the book:
David Peterson’s study is a careful, highly competent, biblically faithful and pastorally astute treatment of Jeremiah 31:31-34 and its resonances in the New Testament, with the latter illuminatingly identified as New Covenant literature. A fine example of scholarship that serves the church in general and pastors in particular. Highly recommended!
To read about the contents of the book click here.
Gifts and Ministries
Moore College faculty contribute to an annual School of Theology, attended by graduates of the College and others. The pattern in recent years has been to focus on the interpretation of a particular biblical book in one year and to develop a biblical or theological topic in the next year. In 2010, Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians was examined and the papers have been published recently as The Wisdom of the Cross. Exploring 1 Corinthians Today, edited by Brian Rosner (Nottingham, Apollos, 2011). 1 Corinthians is often regarded as his makeshift response to random problems in a messy church. This stimulating volume argues for, and undertakes, a more coherent reading of the letter, in the hope of providing a more compelling and theologically rich interpretation and a clearer apprehension of its relevance to the church today. My own contribution is entitled ‘Enriched in every way’: Gifts and Ministries in 1 Corinthians.
Prophetic Preaching
I recently had the opportunity to contribute a chapter to a new book on preaching called Serving God’s Words. Windows on Preaching and Ministry, edited by Paul A. Barker, Richard J. Condie, Andrew S. Malone (Nottingham, IVP, 2011) This stimulating volume was commissioned in honour of Dr. Peter Adam, who has just retired as Principal of Ridley College Melbourne. The book offers perspectives on preaching and ministry from selected biblical texts and reflections on theological and devotional issues. Two concluding studies examine significant examples from church history. My own contribution is a development and extension of work done over the years on the subject of Prophetic Preaching and the Book of Acts. Some of my preliminary work on this topic can be found on this website (Prophecy and Preaching in Acts).
Holiness and Sexuality
In 2004 I edited a book entitled Holiness and Sexuality: Homosexuality in a Biblical Context (Milton Keynes: Paternoster). This contained a series of papers read at the Annual Oak Hill School of Theology in 2003, with some additional material. I also wrote the first three articles. Unfortunately, this book is now out of print and so, with the permission of the publishers, I am making available the full text of the chapters I wrote.
Holiness and God’s Creation Purpose
Holiness and Sexuality in the Pauline Writings
Many people who write on the subject of homosexuality consider it within the framework of justice or love or tolerance or personal fulfilment, but holiness is the theological context and motivation for the teaching of the Mosaic law about sexual behaviour (Lv. 18:1-30; 20:7-26), and holiness is also the basis of the New Testament appeal for distinctive sexual behaviour in several key passages (e.g. 1 Thes. 4:1-8; 1 Cor. 6:9-20; 2 Cor. 6:14 – 7:2). The articles I have written consider the theological and pastoral implications of viewing homosexual behaviour in this way.
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