God's Big Picture: Tracing the Story-Line of the Bible

by Vaughan Roberts

Book Overview

Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. A worldwide bestseller published in countless sizes and bindings, translations and languages. Sworn by in court, fought over by religious people, quoted in arguments. The Bible is clearly no ordinary book. How can you begin to read and understand it as a whole? In this excellent overview, Vaughan Roberts gives you the big picture--showing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830853642
• ISBN13: 9780830853649
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: IVP
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Two THumbs Up for an Outstanding Overview of the Big Picture

Vaughan Roberts has done a great service to the Body of Christ by providing a simplification of Graeme Goldsworthy's approach to biblical theology. This would be a great read for those who are reading through the Bible in 90 Days or even in a year. Unfortunately the best dispensational books are presently being written by Reformed Amillennialists! By that I mean this great fly-over of the whole Bible suffers from "replacement theology" that equates the Church with Israel and sees no future for national Israel in God's Big Picture. Thus, the books suffers from not accurately dealing with Revelation 20 and the literal, complete fulfillment of the covenant promises to Isreal as a nation. That being said the book is still a great overview of God's Big Picture! I just wish current "progressive dispensationalists" would write a simlar book. Vaughan Roberts has done us a great service. Read it, but balance its amillienial, replacement theology with a future for Israel and you will have HD clarity of God's Big Picture!

Great overview of the whole bible

This book provided a wonderful overview of the entire bible in one book. Not an indepth study, but it was fun to read about the bible, all 66 books in one volume. It also helped in understanding how they all fit together and that the central theme is God's redemptive plan for mankind.

Great Starter

Roberts is clear and concise. He works off of Goldsworthy's Gospel and Kingdom, but seeks to make it more accessible. He traces the storyline of the bible with the pattern of the kingdom, the perished k, the promised k, the partial k, the prophesied k, the present k, the proclaimed k, and the perfected k.

Well Structured and Simple to Understand.

Having read 5 various books on this subject of the Kingdom of God, Mr. Roberts book was the most organized, structured, illustrated and understandable. It became the foundation for my own series on the Kingdom. A great first book since it lays the foundation necessary for understanding the more in depth books such as: Announcing the Kingdom and According to Plan.

Simple but Excellent Tool to tbe Introduction of Biblical Theology

For anyone interested to know how the 66 books of the Bible fit together to point towards salvation in Christ, this is a great tool to use.