Tracing God’s Story: An Introduction to Biblical Theology – Jon Nielson

Jon Nielson, Tracing God’s Story: An Introduction to Biblical Theology (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2024), 359 pp.

Tracing God’s Story by Jon Nielson is a helpful introduction to biblical theology that reaches across a diversity of interest levels and educational backgrounds. The book is basic enough for newcomers to biblical theology but contains enough detail to please more seasoned students.

Nielson’s work is arranged in eight scenes, including:

1. God’s Creation and a Crisis
2. God’s Promise of a People
3. God’s People Grow
4. God’s Kingdom – Rise and Fall
5. God’s People – Captive and Coming Home
6. God’s Salvation
7. God’s Church
8. God’s Eternity

Tracing God’s Story presents the big story of redemptive history, which begins with creation and culminates with a New Heaven and New Earth. Each section contains two chapters respectively that invite readers to read significant portions of Scripture with broad descriptions of the narrative, a helpful review section, and a challenge to pray through the material presented. The author is careful to keep the focus on the Lord Jesus Christ – from creation to the cross, culminating in eternity future.

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