Book Note: Cohick’s The Story of God Bible Commentary: Philippians

By Sjbedard @sjbedard

Originally posted on NEAR EMMAUS:

Lynn H. Cohick, The Story of God Bible Commentary: Philippians (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013).

Cohick, PHILIPPIANS

The Story of God Bible Commentary Series is being created in order to “explain each passage of the Bible in light of the Bible’s grand story.” The volumes are written by confessional, Evangelical scholars who seek to read Scripture in connection to the regula fidei or “Rule of Faith”. This means reading the Bible with Jesus Christ as the center while emphasizing major themes such as “creation and fall, covenant and redemption, law and prophets, and especially God’s charge to humans as his image-bearers into rule under God.” God as King and God’s Kingdom as made known in Christ is understood to be the theme which connects the canon (p. xiii).

The commentators are asked to keep this in mind as they exegete each book of the Bible and each passage is to “examined…

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