Analysis Of T. Desmond Alexander 'From Eden To New Jerusalem'

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From Eden to New Jerusalem is a book by T. Desmond Alexander. It presents scripture as one big story from beginning to end. He uses his book to outline this overarching story. Alexander presents the ideas and concepts in a way that is very deep, yet very easy for any reader to understand. Alexander opens up his book, Eden to New Jerusalem, by presenting two important questions many people ask, ‘Why does the earth exist, and what is the purpose of human life?’ He then states that the overarching story of the bible can answer these two questions. Alexander presents an introduction to biblical theology. His course of action for this task is to outline specific themes, as stated in the title, from Eden to New Jerusalem, essentially from creation to new creation. While using John’s vision of heaven in Revelation he executes his look at the new creation. Alexander supports that the Bible should be seen as a big picture. He refers to this as a meta-story. This meta-story answers the question of God’s intentions and what he is going to …show more content…

Desmond Alexander gives us God’s purpose and intentions for the world and mankind through the biblical meta-narrative. In conclusion, Alexander has done an excellent job of thoroughly presenting this story using different parts of the Bible without getting caught up in every single text or leaving out large portions of the Bible. He outlines the different themes throughout the story. These themes include God as the lamb, God as ruler and king, the temple, and God redeeming creation. These themes become major points in the biblical meta-narrative. They support the total story. This story answers the questions visited at the beginning ‘why does the earth exist and what is the purpose of human life?’ Each chapter supports his ‘blueprint for earth.’ (189) Alexander does more then just back up his claims, he shows a detailed outline using many bible references, as well as sighting many other sources on the

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