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Reflections on a Lifetime of New Testament Teaching and Research in Australasia
Reading the New Testament in the Manifold Contexts of a Globalized World: Exegetical Perspectives, pp.289-304
Neutestamentliche Entwurfe zur Theologie, Band 32, A. Francke Verlag
2022
Abstract
I grew up in Auckland, New Zealand. My first engagement with the New Testament came as I attended Sunday School at the Sandringham Methodist Church. Sunday School was the name given to classes given to children, where they were taught Bible stories and nurtured in the Christian faith. Perhaps the earliest memories are of Old Testament stories, such as the heroics of David, but there were also stories of Jesus, such as his welcoming children, and, of course, the Christmas stories which surrounded the summer holiday period, as it was in the southern hemisphere. More earnest young teachers at the Bible Institute, put on placement at our church, introduced me as a teenager to the challenges of evangelism and “decision”-making. Their approach to the Bible was fundamentalist, the infallible Word of God, and by thirteen I was set upon a path taking my faith, that version of it, very seriously…
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- Title
- Reflections on a Lifetime of New Testament Teaching and Research in Australasia
- Authors/Creators
- William R G Loader FAHA
- Contributors
- Eve-Marie Becker (Editor)Jens Herzer (Editor)Angela Standhartinger (Editor)Florian Wilk (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Reading the New Testament in the Manifold Contexts of a Globalized World: Exegetical Perspectives, pp.289-304
- Series
- Neutestamentliche Entwurfe zur Theologie; Band 32
- Publisher
- A. Francke Verlag
- Identifiers
- 991005712468707891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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