Dec
31
2009
Goldsworthy: Outline of Biblical History
As you read the Bible, here’s a chart you may want to to print out and have on hand. It’s from Graeme Goldsworthy’s bookAccording to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible. It simplified, of course, but it can be helpful in locating where you’re at in the biblical storyline and seeing the history of Israel “at a glance.”
Goldsworthy’s outline is below. You can also download this as a PDF (posted with permission).
Taken from According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible by Graeme Goldsworthy. Copyright(c) Graeme Goldsworthy 1991. Used by permission of InterVarsity Press, PO Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515 (www.ivpress.com) and Inter-Varsity Press, Norton Street, Nottingham NG7 3HR England (www.ivbooks.com)
11 Comments
Thanks. Haven’t read it. Ordered it. So begins the depletion of the 2010 book allowance.
Nice outline.
Of course, the bible gave a lot of detailed history for that vague “creation to Abraham” part of the bible, but for some reason, nobody wants to take it seriously.
Just sayin’.
If you go to this link you will find a set of helpful lecture by Goldsworthy. Look for the Lectures titled structure of biblical theology. http://myrrh.library.moore.edu.au/dspace-jspui/handle/10248/806/search
Pity that Graeme leaves some space at the beginning.
I prefer Dr Floyd Nolen Jones’ “Chronology of the Old Testament”.
Neil
Just a further comment.
Last time I consulted with him, some years ago, Graeme Godsworthy indicated he rejected evolution as a model of origins. Makes it strange, therefore, that he doesn’t fill in more detail in his chart from Adam to Abraham. Perhaps he wouldn’t get his books promoted through Moore College if he revealed any inkling of adherence to the history of Genesis 1 to 11.
Neil,
Do you recognize it’s intended as a one-page chart?! Seems bit rash to make any assumptions on the basis of one diagram. That’s not the point of the outline.
JT
Justin, thanks for the advice. I take it with grace.
Seems to me, though, that leaving out, for one, a key figure like Noah – commended highly in Hebrews 11 for his faith and a key figure in a serious global event spoken attested to by our Lord Jesus – is a major historical oversight. I wonder still whether Graeme was ‘treading on egg shells’ when dealing with early earth history in his chart. My opinion only and not worth getting stirred up about. Maybe we should leave it at that.
Yours sincerely,
Neil
My apologies. Delete the word “spoken” from line 2 of paragraph 2.
Yours sincerely,
Neil
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Here’s a reworked version of Goldsworthy’s chart used for the 2009 national conference of the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Christians.
As well as having the same helpful content, it looks pretty.
http://whatsthedealwithstuff.blogspot.com/2009/08/time-time-time.html