"This will go down as Graeme Goldsworthy’s magnum opus. What a gift to the church it is. The busy pastor and hungry layman will find it a gold mine of Biblical thought and exegesis." Terry Allen, Pastor, Sandy Beach Baptist Church, NSW, Australia

Graeme Goldsworthy invites us to reckon with the differing historical and cultural distances of texts from ourselves when thinking about the application of the Scriptures in our own lives. Throughout,
Goldsworthy carefully explores major biblical themes and the crucial transitions that occur in the course of biblical history.

The book comprises four sections:
- The Word of God
- The Being of God
- The Doing of God
- The People of God

Each chapter ends with a section summarizing it and offering practical hermeneutical implications. As Goldsworthy writes, "The exposition of any text is incomplete until we understand its development from its historical-theological origins through to its fulfilment in Christ."