FROM CREATION TO NEW CREATION
By Tim Chester
Paternoster Press. 175 pages
ISBN 1 84227 204 7
Bible overviews are a growth industry. Unlike the situation 25 years ago, it is easy to find books, written at a popular level, that paint 'the big picture' of God's plan of salvation as it unfolds in Scripture. The latest edition of the FIEC's Table Talk discusses the benefits of Bible overviews in the light of several relevant publications currently available. If Tim Chester's book From Creation to New Creation had appeared in time, it could well have figured in the Table Talk list of recommended reading.
Chapter 1 of this book recounts the sublime story of our redemption from Genesis to Revelation. The next four chapters cover the same ground thematically by tracing the development of promises concerning God's people, a place of divine blessing, king and kingdom, and blessing to the nations. The approach is somewhat reminiscent of Graeme Goldsworthy's Gospel and Kingdom; but it is not simply a rehash of the same material.
