Matthias Beachy

“Unless we understand New Testament social history sympathetically within its cultural settings—which are ancient and alien to ours—we are predisposed to misinterpret the social realities reflected there. The result is that we will superimpose our modern questions and social agendas onto the ancient texts in order to receive the answers we expect back again clothed in biblical authority.”
― Finny Kuruvilla, King Jesus Claims His Church: A Kingdom Vision for the People of God