New Testament Theology

The book Caird was writing when he died in 1984, completed and edited by his former student L. D. Hurst and published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1994, with a paperback the following year. It takes what Caird called the conference-table approach: the New Testament writers are imagined as members of an apostolic conference, each allowed to speak in his own voice on the questions put to them. Its chapters move from the apostolic conference through the divine plan, the need of salvation, the three tenses of salvation, its fact, experience and hope, and the bringer of salvation, to the theology of Jesus, which the book treats as both the starting point and the goal of New Testament theology. It ends with a summary, an epilogue on dialogue, meaning and authority, and a list of Caird's writings.