Homiletical scholarship is divided on how Christology should impact Old Testament exposition. Christocentric homileticians argue that every OT text should be connected in some way with God's revelation and redemption in Christ. On the other hand, Christiconic homileticians argue that Christ as the fulfillment of true humanity provides a warrant to show how each OT text calls us to obey God's will. This thesis seeks demonstrate that both approaches are undergirded by the same theological substructure and are thus complementary rather than contradictory. To investigate this claim, the study undertakes an exegetical study of two Pauline texts -- 2 Cor 6:14-18 and 1 Cor 10:1-22 -- with a view to answering the following question: What is it about Paul's understanding of redemptive-history that allows him to use the OT as a source of moral exhortation? In each of these texts, Paul reads the OT as both a foreshadowing of Christ and a source of instruction for the Christian life. After studying these two NT texts, the thesis surveys three motifs in biblical theology that shed light on the broad theological context for Paul's homiletical exhortation -- new creation, new covenant, and new exodus. Each of these motifs plays a role in 2 Cor 6:14-18 and 1 Cor 10:1-22, and they shed further light on why a Christocentric hermeneutic is inseparable from the hortatory function of Scripture. A survey of theological anthropology follows and puts our exegetical findings in conversation with systematic theology. Here it is suggested that understanding Christ as the fulfillment of true humanity is a theological reality that undergirds the dual function of typology as something that is both anticipatory and hortatory. Yet this raises a homiletical question: Does the Christ-centeredness of the canon as a whole necessitate that every individual OT sermon be Christocentric? To address this question, we explore the general and special hermeneutics of canonical plot structure, offering two resources -- the medieval fourfold method of interpretation and a theodramatic model of doctrine -- for a homiletic that can operate at multiple levels of canonical specificity. Finally, we draw these theoretical conclusions together in order to propose a constructive model for understanding the move from text to sermon. This model is built on our exegetical findings and informed by our discussions of theological anthropology and canonical plot structure. We propose that Paul utilizes the OT for Christian instruction by drawing canonical correspondences of response between God0́9s people at various points in redemptive history. Finally, we offer some hermeneutical and pastoral guidelines for drawing such correspondences in preaching. Thus the thesis is an integrative study that seeks to wed homiletical theory with pastoral practice.

Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present an integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology. This foundational work integrates behavioral, cognitive, and interpersonal models of therapy within a Christian theological framework.

There has been heightened interest and prolific publication by missiologists about contextualization since the term was first coined in 1972. There has been ongoing debate, particularly amongst evangelicals themselves regarding which of these meanings, methods, and models of contextualization are acceptable to use. Much of the debate has been carried out by academics and practitioners whose observations and conclusions have been largely shaped by the social sciences and practical theology. In contrast, the disciplines of biblical studies and Christian thought have not featured significantly in the debate. The purpose of this research is to establish that biblical studies and Christian thought in general (and Scripture and the church fathers in particular) have an essential contribution to make in the contextualization debate and should form part of an evangelical approach to contextualization of the gospel alongside the social sciences and practical theology. Following a review of the literature on contextualization over the past forty years, the research examines the book of Acts as representative of Scripture, and the work of John Chrysostom as a representative church father. Contextual principles that are consistent with an evangelical approach to contextualization of the gospel are drawn from each work, establishing the value of biblical studies and Christian thought in contextualization.

Christian theology, like all forms of knowledge, thinking and practice, arises from and is influenced by the context in which it is done. In Doing Contextual Theology, Angie Pears demonstrates the radically contextual nature of Christian theology by focusing on five forms of liberation theology: Latin American Liberation Theologies; Black Theologies; Feminist Informed Theologies; Sexual Theologies; Body Theologies. Pears analyses how each of these asserts a clear and persistent link to the Christian tradition through The Bible and Christology and discusses the implications of contextual and local theologies for understanding Christianity as a religion. Moreover, she considers whether fears are justified that a radically contextual reading of Christian theologies leads to a relativist understanding of the religion, or whether these theologies share some form of common identity both despite and because of their contextual nature. Doing Contextual Theology offers students a clear and up-to-date survey of the field of contemporary liberation theology and provides them with a sound understanding of how contextual theology works in practice.

Is "preaching" mandated in the post-apostolic context, and if so, how does it relate to the preaching of the Old Testament prophets and of Jesus and his apostles? In this NSBT volume Jonathan Griffiths seeks answers to these questions in the New Testament, surveying the Scripture and setting his exegetical findings within the context of biblical theology.

Where have all the prophets gone? And why do preachers seem to shy away from prophetic witness? Astute preacher Leonora Tisdale considers these vexing questions while providing guidance and encouragement to pastors who want to recommit themselves to the task of prophetic witness. With a keen sensitivity to pastoral contexts, Tisdale's work is full of helpful suggestions and examples to help pastors structure and preach prophetic sermons, considered by many to be one of the most difficult tasks pastors are called to undertake.