Andy Cheung interviews Jim Hamilton about his book, God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, due out this November.
Here’s an excerpt:
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to understand the Bible and help others understand it, too. This was never an end in itself but always a desire to know God through Christ by the Spirit and live in a way that was pleasing to him. So I mainly wanted to write this book in order to understand the Bible so as to know and please God.
As I studied biblical theology, it was curious to me that the glory of God was absent from discussions of the center of biblical theology. At that time I was also making my way through Isaiah in Hebrew, slowly working through the text and reading it repeatedly. I became convinced that the glory of God in salvation through judgment was the center of Isaiah’s theology, and then I began to test that thesis against other parts of the Bible: it matched what happened at the exodus, at the cross, and at the consummation. Once all this came together, I wanted to make a case that the glory of God in salvation through judgment is indeed the center of biblical theology.