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It is rare for a biblical scholar to produce a systematic theology of the breadth and depth of this book. Warm-hearted yet with a critical and engaging style throughout, Michael F. Bird presents a theology that is robustly biblical, doxological, and woven through the breadth of the evangelical ecclesial traditions. Providing fresh interaction with concepts from the wider theological world while persistently mining the biblical text, this theology takes no short cuts in offering an evangelical theology that has everything to do with the gospel. -- Jason S. Sexton, Research Associate, USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Los AngelesTaking its bearings in the gospel story of Jesus, Michael Bird’s Evangelical Theology is unique among the current crop of one-volume systematic theologies. Bringing the sensibilities of an exegete and biblical theologian to the task of systematics, Bird pursues a drama of redemption approach: doing theology through telling the story. While championing the expositional realities of the biblical text, Bird also keeps a keen eye toward the creedal inheritance of the church and the contributions of the theological tradition. Broadly Reformed and self-consciously evangelical, Bird’s accessible and conversational style will be sure to win him a wide reading among students, pastors and teachers. -- Michael D. Williams, Professor of Systematic Theology, Covenant Theological Seminary

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About the Author

Michael F. Bird is Academic Dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission, The Saving Righteousness of God, Evangelical Theology, Romans (Story of God Bible Commentary Series), The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus, and editor of The Apostle Paul: Four Views. He also runs a popular theological studies blog called “Euangelion” and can be followed on twitter @mbird12. 

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Hardcover: 912 pages

Publisher: Zondervan; 1St Edition edition (October 30, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0310494419

ISBN-13: 978-0310494416

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7.6 x 1.7 x 9.4 inches

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4.2 out of 5 stars

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It’s been a while since I’ve read a systematic theology. I’ve focused more of my attention on reading biblical theology. But Michael Bird’s introduction video where he explains his premises for Evangelical Theology piqued my interest in a way that’s unusual for a hardy academic book. In the book, he explains it this way: In terms of Christian theology, the gospel is the glue between doctrine, experience, mission, and practice. I submit that an authentic evangelical theology should be a working out of the gospel in the various loci of Christian theology (i.e., the topics in theology like the nature of God, the person and work of Christ, the church, last things, etc.) and then be applied to the sphere of daily Christian life and the offices of Christian leaders. (21) Evangelical theology, then, is the drama of gospelizing. By “gospelizing” I mean trying to become what the gospel intends believers to be: slaves of Christ, vessels of grace, agents of the kingdom, and a people worthy of God’s name. Dedication to the art of gospelizing is crucial because “evangelicals need to recapture a passion for biblical formation: a desire to be formed, reformed and transformed by the truth and power of the gospel.” To pursue Kevin Vanhoozer’s image, the task of theology is to enable disciples to perform the script of the Scriptures, according to advice of the dramaturge the Holy Spirit, in obedience to the design of the director, Jesus Christ, with the gospel as the theme music, and performed in the theater of the church. The company of the gospel shows what they believe in an open-air performance staged for the benefit of the world. The purpose of gospelizing is to ensure that those who bear Christ’s name walk in Christ’s way. (30-31)These paragraphs sum up Bird’s goal and also what I believe he achieves quite well in Evangelical Theology.This book is no joke at eight hundred and sixty five pages. I chose three section so that I could get a taste for how well Bird succeeds in his goal of arranging a systematic around the gospel. I chose “Part One: Prolegomena: Beginning to Talk about God,” “Part Two: The God of the Gospel: The Triune God in Being and Action,” and “Part Five: The Gospel of Salvation.”The prolegomena was an easy choice because it’s the beginning remarks of how the systematizing will be accomplished. There are a variety of ways this is typically done. Bird falls squarely in the Reformed stream which has systematics like Hodge’s which starts by laying out theology as a scientific method (35) or Calvin’s which start with how we can know God (33). Bird, on the other hand, starts with the gospel. If he did not start there with his stated goal the entire book would have fallen apart. He explains, “The gospel explains why we are in the theological race in the first place, and the gospel is the nexus into the reality of the God who has revealed himself” (41). It was a refreshing stabilizer for the entire book.Bird excels at taking Scripture, church history, and major biblical themes into account and massaging them into a cohesive unit. He first roots the gospel firmly in Scripture, and not just the New Testament, but he starts and explains the gospel as a story that begins in the Old Testament (“The gospel is part of a story line of promise and fulfillment. That story reaches back into the Hebrew Scriptures and fins its climax in Jesus the Messiah” 51). The depth and breadth is seen well in “Part Five: The Gospel of Salvation,” but more on that later.Second, he firmly roots the gospel in the apostolic tradition found in the early church. For the early church, Scripture was not to be read in an arbitrary, introspective, or esoteric way; rather, Scripture was to be read, interpreted, and applied in continuity with the apostolic explanation of the story line of Scripture.This emphasis must be recovered in American evangelicalism (AE). AE tends to devalue the apostolic tradition and historic liturgy, but Bird demonstrates the gospel was absolutely central for the faith and practice of the early church, as can be seen the earliest creeds and in their practice, and so to lose that tradition is lose at least part of the gospel’s clarity. He explains, The regula fidei was not an oral tradition that existed parallel to Scripture. The regula fidei was what emerged out of the preaching and teaching of Scripture in the early church. The regula fidei was both derived from Scripture and was the interpretive lens through which Scripture was to be understood. In this perspective, Scripture and tradition mutually reinforce each other. The regula fidei was the attempt to safeguard the authority of Scripture by adopting an interpretive framework sanctioned by Scripture. That took the form, not of a creed, but a general narration of the Christian story as it had been handed on in the early church. Later the rule was expanded to include reading the Scriptures in light of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan and Chalcedonian clarifications of Christian doctrine. The apostolic teaching gave us the Scriptures, the Scriptures gave us the regula fidei, the regula fidei defined the theological hermeneutics for the canon, and the canon provided the grounds for the subsequent creeds and confessions of the church. . . . [67-68] To sum up, we should read Scripture in light of tradition for several reasons. (1) We value the testimony of our forefathers in the faith who ran the race ahead of us and in some cases paid for it with their lives. We may not always agree with them, but we ignore them to our peril. (2) The New Testament itself is both a product of the church’s tradition about Jesus and also generated a tradition as to how Scripture should be read and understood. (3) The canon of scripture is ultimately an expression of the rule of faith. (4) The Reformation slogan of sola scripture does not mean only Scripture, but calls for the primacy of Scripture in our theology. (5) Everybody has a tradition, whether they recognize it or not, and we should test our traditions to see if they are biblical and utilize our traditions to help us understand the Bible. Tradition, therefore, is the consultative norm for theology. Ultimately, tradition is a tool for reading Scripture. Tradition is what the church has learned by reading Scripture. We should read Scripture in light of tradition, and in reflex we must test tradition against the grain of Scripture. In the end we are not slavishly bound by tradition, but we are foolish if we completely ignore it. I am not calling for traditionalism, by which I mean the veneration of rituals, doc- trines, and liturgies without submitting them to the test of Scripture, simply because they have always been there. I am advocating an approach to biblical interpretation that places Scripture and tradition in a continuous spiral of listening to the text and listening to our forefathers in the faith. As Jaroslav Pelikan put it: “Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.” (69-70)These two emphasis are found through the parts I read. When discussing the trinity, for instance, he does it with Scripture in view, but also with feet firmly planted within the testimony of the early church. He honestly evaluates the struggle to understand the trinity and shows how the apostolic tradition and the liturgy of the church helped shape the Church’s understanding of God as trinity.Last, I appreciated the balance and thoroughness found in “Part Five: The Gospel of Salvation.” Salvation is discussed within the gospel matrix. Bird describes the relation as follows: The gospel tells us that God saves in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; consequently, salvation is understood as the chief benefit of the gospel. Furthermore, salvation is more than the sojourn of souls into heaven; rather, it is holistic and includes the well-being of body, mind, and soul. Salvation is part of a story (redemptive history) and is applied to the believer in a particular process (order of salvation).The chapters within this part synthesize the gospel as story and Jesus as fulfillment themes and the application of salvation, as the last sentence from the paragraph above demonstrates. He also says, “The Savior is the content of the gospel and salvation is the goal of the gospel” (494). He never loses focuses from his main task--which is showing how the gospel is the glue of salvation. The synthesis holds up in view of the covenant of grace. He talks about God’s promised covenant love and His kingdom established by covenant righteousness (507). He says, “The plan of God, which we call the covenant of grace, is for God’s people to dwell in God’s place, in God’s presence, under God’s reign” (511). Later he wades into the order of salvation, a favorite for some reformed types, but he does so carefully. Reformed theologians, in my estimation, sometimes error by assuming too much when discussing the order of salvation. Bird couches this chapter with likely’s, and probably’s, and outlines his order according to Romans 8. I appreciate the carefulness.Evangelical Theology is a systematic you will want on your shelf. From my readings, Bird succeeds in making the gospel central and connecting the doctrines discussed to it. His exegesis is rooted in Scripture, while also not losing site of the history of the church. And overall the text is extremely readable and if you’re a real theology geek, you might even appreciate the bits of theology humor dropped in from time to time. Also, I finished up the parts I was reading for this review after publishing my must reads of 2013, but for what it’s worth Evangelical Theology easily makes that list as a late season addition.

Evangelical Theology by Michael F Bird is a fantastic book for those looking to better understand God. It includes everything from who God is and His nature, to what our task here on Earth is while we wait for the second coming. It did an excellent job explaining key concepts clearly in a way that was easy to grasp and understand. Bird also used tons of outside sources to back up the facts he used to support his claim.Perhaps my favorite part about this book was Bird’s ability to give viewpoints from several worldviews rather than just giving his alone. By doing this, he did a superb job keeping the bias to a minimal while explaining concepts. When reading this book, it was easy for me to make my own judgements rather than being slammed with his own opinions presented as facts.Not only was the author’s information well-supported and clear, the author did an amazing job hooking the reader. He would occasionally throw in a humorous hyperbole while explaining a topic. This helped me follow along with everything he said throughout the book.So why only four stars?Throughout the book I found one flaw that tended to be a bit irritating. In many chapters, it was not uncommon for the author to repeat himself several times. Occasionally, I would find myself reading up to three pages of material that was already explained clearly in the first paragraph of the first page. Despite the author’s outstanding efforts to keep his readers attached to the material so that they could understand it, I did find myself becoming slightly frustrated and confused on certain concepts simply because the concept was overstated.Overall, Evangelical Theology by Michael F Bird is excellent for understanding many key concepts about God, His divine nature, our mission here on Earth, the role of each of the three persons that make up God, and more. Despite the occasional overstating of concepts, the book was easy to read with tons of unbiased information that was backed by other sources.

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