Preface
Introduction: How to Use This Book

PART ONE: BIBLICAL THEOLOGY—WHY?

1 The Leech Has Two Daughters

PART TWO: BIBLICAL THEOLOGY—HOW?

2 God Makes Himself Known
3 But How Can We Know?
4 Christ Has Made Him Known
5 And We Know Him Through Scripture
6 The Bible Is the Divine-Human Word
7 We Begin and End with Christ

PART THREE: BIBLICAL THEOLOGY—WHAT?

8 I Am the First and the Last
9 Creation by Word
10 The Fall
11 First Revelation of Redemption
12 Abraham Our Father
13 Exodus: Pattern of Redemption
14 New Life: Gift and Task
15 The Temptation in the Wilderness
16 Into the Good Land
17 God’s Rule in God’s Land
18 The Life of Faith
19 The Fading Shadow
20 There Is a New Creation
21 The Second Exodus
22 The New Creation for Us
23 The New Creation in Us Initiated
24 The New Creation in Us Now
25 The New Creation Consummated

PART FOUR: BIBLICAL THEOLOGY—WHERE?

26 Knowing God’s Will
27 Life After Death
Subject Index
Scripture Index

The massive diversity and complexity of the Bible can make it a daunting project for anyone to tackle. Getting a grasp on the unity of the Bible, its central message from Genesis to Revelation, helps immensely in understanding the meaning of any one book or passage. That is the goal of this book by Graeme Goldsworthy.

How do the Old and New Testaments fit together?
What is the point of biblical theology?
What is the overall story of the Bible?
What difference does it make?

Goldsworthy answers these questions with an integrated theology of both Old and New Testaments that avoids unnecessary technicalities. Concise, pithy chapters featuring dozens of charts, highlighted summaries and study questions make According to Plan an enormously useful book for understanding how the Bible fits together as the unfolding story of God's plan for salvation.