<p><em>New Covenant and the Early Church </em>aims to provide historical literary and theological context for the New Testament in order to strengthen a reader's</p><p>understanding. Rather than move through the books in canonical order this study will place the books and letters of the apostles chronologically</p><p>focusing on the formation of the Gospel narrative within the early church. The timeline of the early church provided in Acts will serve as a touchstone for contextual understanding of the various books of the New Testament.</p>