In These Last Days: The Dynamics of Biblical Revelation: Biblical and Systematic Theology in the service of understanding Scripture

by Graeme Goldsworthy

"This will go down as Graeme Goldsworthy’s magnum opus. What a gift to the church it is. The busy pastor and hungry layman will find it a gold mine of Biblical thought and exegesis." Terry Allen, Pastor, Sandy Beach Baptist Church, NSW, Australia

Graeme Goldsworthy invites us to reckon with the differing historical and cultural distances of texts from ourselves when thinking about the application of the Scriptures in our own lives. Throughout, Goldsworthy carefully explores major biblical themes and the crucial transitions that occur in the course of biblical history.

The book comprises four
- The Word of God
- The Being of God
- The Doing of God
- The People of God






Each chapter ends with a section summarizing it and offering practical hermeneutical implications. As Goldsworthy writes, "The exposition of any text is incomplete until we understand its development from its historical-theological origins through to its fulfilment in Christ."

871 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2024

About the author

Graeme Goldsworthy is an Australian Anglican and Old Testament scholar. Now retired, Goldsworthy was formerly lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of "According to Plan" (IVP, 1991), "Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture" (Eerdmans, 2000) and "Proverbs: The Tree of Life" (CEP, 1993). Goldsworthy has an MA from Cambridge University and a ThM and PhD from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia.

Reviews

[Zack · Rating 3 out of 5]

With flashes of brilliance, veins of redundancy, and questionable organizing principles, this is a worthwhile read that doesn’t quite deliver on expectations. It’s not a book on reading the Bible as much as it is an attempt at integrating biblical, systematic, and practical theology. Like most (if not all) attempts at this sort of project, it falls a bit flat. But it’s still worth a leisurely read for personal edification.

[Jonathan Ginn · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5

I would describe this book as a systematic biblical theology consisting of chapter-length biblical-theological treatments of various systematic-theological themes. The book's strength lies in its relatively straightforward approach, as it allows the Scriptures speak for themselves according to their own progressive-revelatory unfolding. The biggest obstacle I had with this book, unfortunately, was acclimating to Goldsworthy's line of reasoning and way of writing. There's just something about his style of prose and how he occasionally jumps from one thought to the next that made it difficult for me to track with. Perhaps it's just me, but I often found myself having to re-read certain paragraphs and passages in order to understand how we got from point A to point B.