- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: InterVarsity Press (Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0851112986
- ISBN-13: 978-0830853649
- ASIN: 0830853642
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.4 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 356,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mark Thompson; Evangelical Presbyterian; March 2004
... provides great help in understanding better how each part of
the Bible relates to the whole.
the Bible relates to the whole.
John R Auchmuty; Church of Ireland Gazette; March 2004
This book will enable the reader to find his or her way around the
Bible with greater confidence.
Bible with greater confidence.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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Vaughan Roberts Bible overview is very helpful in getting the big picture of the theme of kingdom throughout the Bible. The eight chapters work through the books of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation using Goldsworthy's God's people in God's place under God's rule. At the end of each chapter there is a helpful summary table with the progression from Eden to the New Heaven and the New Earth. The book is scholarly without being difficult to read and provides an excellent introduction to God's Big Picture. Use of the accompanying study material will benefit the reader in being able to delve deeper into the Bible to examine each theme.
In short an excellent big picture of God's plan and its working out in history. I have read it and will keep it to continually refer to again and use with individuals, small groups and in teaching larger groups.
In short an excellent big picture of God's plan and its working out in history. I have read it and will keep it to continually refer to again and use with individuals, small groups and in teaching larger groups.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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"God's Big Picture" traces the storyline of the Bible and reveals how all of it's different parts fit together into one unifying whole. The book takes the reader from the Creation in Genesis to the New Heaven and New Earth in Revelation and demonstrates how all the bits in between are all discrete yet coherent parts of God's overall plan to undo the effects of the Fall and to destroy evil forever.I think that this book will be of assistance to any reader who is studying the Bible and may be struggling to make sense of some or all of it; "God's Big Picture" will undoubtedly help to make things clearer.The book is easy to read and is concise , however it does cover similar ground to and share common themes with one of the author's other books ,"Turning Points".
Format:Paperback
The principal aim of biblical theology is to engage the hermaneutical challenge: to see where each passage and book fits into the whole. In a classic take strongly inspired by (and referencing) Goldsworthy, Roberts picks out the main events in the storyline of the bible, from creation, fall, exodus, exile, Jesus, and second coming. He assembles these into a picture of a coherent narrative, that of God's final plan for the new heavens and new earth being gradually revealed to his chosen people over thousands of years.
The tone, as in all of his books, is remarkably simple and direct, with plentiful anecdotes and engaging explanation of passages quoted. This makes it ideal for someone new to the ideas presented, such as a young Christian or anyone struggling to identify and understand the flow of the bible, which is after all a rather massive and daunting book. There is significant cross-over in theme with "Turning Points", but "God's Big Picture" is instead aimed more at Christians, while "Turning Points" is a bible overview I think intended to be more evangelistic.
The tone, as in all of his books, is remarkably simple and direct, with plentiful anecdotes and engaging explanation of passages quoted. This makes it ideal for someone new to the ideas presented, such as a young Christian or anyone struggling to identify and understand the flow of the bible, which is after all a rather massive and daunting book. There is significant cross-over in theme with "Turning Points", but "God's Big Picture" is instead aimed more at Christians, while "Turning Points" is a bible overview I think intended to be more evangelistic.
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