The priest as the redeemed man

Abstract

"Evangelicals have increasingly realized the value of Biblical-theological method in understanding God's redemptive plan in the person and work of Christ. Yet it is an irony of modern evangelical scholarship that while much has been written on the kingly and prophetic roles of Christ from a redemptive historical point of view, so important a topic as Christ's priesthood has to date received very little treatment of a similar kind, notwithstanding the formidable literature the subject has elicited over the centuries in the sphere of systematics"