Product Description: This volume celebrates and extends a theme central to the work of Princeton Seminary President Thomas W. Gillespie -- the nature and role of Christian theology as servant of the church. Twenty-five contributing scholars approach this theme in strikingly original ways, offering diverse and ecumenically minded essays that make both a fitting tribute to Gillespie's legacy and a substantial contribution to theological inquiry in their own right...read more

What were the function and location of the prophets in early Christianity? What were the nature and authority of their prophesying? What were the forms and content of their prophecy? In this book, Princeton theologian Thomas Gillespie provides an important contribution to the scholarly investigation of the nature and function of early Christian prophecy.