Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThis paper investigates how J. I. Packer, one of the most prominent Evangelical theologians of the 20th and 21st centuries, used the New Testament to build his perspective on discipleship. While a systematic presentation of discipleship is not available in Packer\u2019s works, his numerous references to the term reveal his deep preoccupation with the subject. Hence my decision to trace his steps back to the way he uses the New Testament to devise a holistic understanding of discipleship. To achieve this goal, I took several steps of my own, first to study his general view of the Bible, second to go a bit deeper in the same direction by seeing how he works with the New Testament as the fundamental source for his theology of discipleship, and then \u2013 the remaining four steps \u2013 have to do with Packer\u2019s actual use of New Testament books for his doctrine of discipleship; in this respect, I read about his thoughts on discipleship as he read about it in the four Gospels, in the epistles (Pauline and otherwise), the Acts of the Apostles, and the Book of Revelation. I also did a brief research on what I called Packer\u2019s \u201ctwo pillars\u201d of discipleship, which he identifies as the nature of and the teaching about discipleship \u2013 the former being revealed in the Gospels, and the latter in the epistles. The fact that I went beyond the Gospels and the epistles into a succinct investigation of the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation is merely a natural consequence of my original intention of tracing Packer\u2019s way throughout the entire New Testament for his theology of
\ndiscipleship. In the end, though, this study is not merely a search into Packer\u2019s use of the New Testament for his view of discipleship, but also an opportunity to extract some essential features of discipleship which he came across as he studied each literary genre of the New Testament.<\/p>\n
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discipleship;\u00a0New Testament;\u00a0Gospels;\u00a0epistles;\u00a0Acts of the Apostles;\u00a0Revelation<\/p>\n
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322654<\/p>\n
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https:\/\/hrcak.srce.hr\/322654<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original scientific paper https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32862\/k.18.2.6 J. I. Packer\u2019s Use of the New Testament for His Doctrine of Discipleship Corneliu C. Simu\u021b ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, \u201cAurel Vlaicu\u201d University of Arad, Romania Full text:\u00a0english pdf 143 Kb page 205-221 Abstract This paper investigates how J. I. Packer, one of the most prominent Evangelical theologians… <\/p>\n
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