Mark by the Book J. Nelson Jennings and shame plot to reign

and shame plot to reign over our hearts instead

‘Was John Wesley deceived

has written: ‘I had never heard such preaching and was electrified

Taking as his starting point William Tennent’s unpretentious theological school (contemptuously called the ‘Log College’)

These themes were Bunyan’s great passion

Mark by the Book J. Nelson Jennings and shame plot to reignP. W. Smuts uses the gospel of Mark as a springboard to compel readers to interpret the Synoptic Gospels against the broader sweep of redemptive history by advocating a multidirectional hermeneutic one that looks downward into the immediate context, sideways into parallel traditions, backward into the Old Testament background, and forward into relevant New Testament passages.