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“Biblical theology must follow a method that reads the Bible on its own terms, following the Bible’s own internal contours and shape, in order to discover God’s unified plan as it is disclosed to us over time.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“Prophetic preaching and writing certainly does not follow the patterns of Aristotelian rectilinear logic so fundamental to our discourse in the Western world. Instead, the approach in ancient Hebrew literature is to take up a topic and develop it from a particular perspective and then to stop and take up the same theme again from another point of view. This patter is kaleidoscopic and recursive.”
― Peter J. Gentry Stephen J Wellum, Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants

“the plan of salvation is no halfway fix-it job. God’s plan of restoration brings us back to the pristine state of Eden—in a world now much better and much greater. Augustine once said that he feared to entrust his soul to the great physician lest he be more thoroughly cured than he cared to be. God’s plan of salvation is absolutely thorough, and he is not going to be satisfied with some half job of reformation and renewal in our lives.”
― Peter J. Gentry, Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants

“God is forbearing, gracious, and longsuffering, but he is also a God of holiness, wrath, and judgement.57 The wrath of God, unlike the love or holiness of God, should not be thought of as an intrinsic perfection of God; rather it is a function or expression of God’s holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath, but there will always be love and holiness. Where God in his holiness confronts his image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, otherwise God is not the jealous and self-sufficient God he claims to be, and his holiness is impugned.58”
― Peter J. Gentry, Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants

“so just as Adam was to fulfill his mandate by devoting himself to worship as a priest in the garden sanctuary, so Israel as a new Adam is to fulfill her mandate by devoting herself to worship as a priest in the tabernacle, and later the temple.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“The church does not confer authority upon this book because she desires it to be God’s Word; rather, Scripture itself testifies that it is God’s authoritative Word, written through the agency of human authors, and that it is the product of the sovereign-personal “God who is there” and from “the God who is not silent.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“essential to the canonical horizon of biblical interpretation is the continuity between the promises of God and his fulfillment of those promises”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“God wants each and every individual person to think first of the inalienable rights of the other person and not first about their own inalienable rights.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology

“Because Christ is the last Adam and the true Israel, the true and literal seed of Abraham (Gal. 3:16), all of God’s promises to Israel (which includes the nations) are fulfilled in Christ and inaugurated in the church. God has not replaced Israel by the church; instead, he has brought Israel’s role to its fulfillment in Christ and to Christ’s people.”
― Peter J. Gentry, God's Kingdom through God's Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology