15 New Testament Words of Life

In 15 New Testament Words of Life, biblical scholar Nijay Gupta explores some of the most important New Testament words:

• Righteousness
• Gospel
• Forgiveness
• Life
• Cross
• Faith
• Grace
• Fellowship
• Hope
• Salvation
• Peace
• Religion
• Holiness
• Love
• Witness

These are familiar terms in the Christian vocabulary, but many don’t know the original background and theological importance of these words, and how they can be life-giving for Christian faith and life today. To access the deep meaning of these words in the theological vocabulary of the New Testament writers, Gupta discusses each word within a key text and interprets it in three contexts:

• Canonical—how the New Testament is grounded in the Old
• Literary—the meaning developed within the key text
• Historical—the Jewish and Greco-Roman world of the first century