Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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The growing field of missional hermeneutics has tended to focus on the great overarching narrative of the whole biblical canon which renders to us the mission of God for all creation and all nations. And within that frame, exegetical and hermeneutical interest in the Old Testament from a missional perspective has focused mainly on the narrative and prophetic scriptures that carry that great redemptive tradition. The Wisdom Literature has been rather neglected, as indeed it has often been in the general field of Old Testament theology. After all, in what possible way could books like Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job be relevant for mission?Convinced that a missional hermeneutic, if it is to be truly "whole Bible" in its validity, must be capable of application to any part of Scripture, in Wisdom for the Nations: A Missional Reading of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Job, Chris Wright sets out to ask exactly that question. He first proposes a suite of heuristic questions that can uncover the missional dimensions of any biblical text, such as: where does this text fit into and relate to the grand narrative of the mission of God? What does this reveal about the God who is on mission and about the people whom he calls to participate with him? What does this text reveal about the human fallen condition and conversely of the scale and scope of the biblical good news that addresses it? How would this text have functioned to shape the people of God in their missional locatedness then, and how might it do so now?Wright then addresses these questions in turning to Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job, and suggests that the answers may be both surprising and fruitful in deepening our understanding of the mission of God, and our theology and practice of mission as God's people today. - Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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Whether you are thinking of stepping out in your community, or in the world at large, Transcending Mission will provide you with the theology to better guide you on your journey. Its thorough approach and critical eye will help you go go out equipped, ready to serve and ready to share God with people yet to discover him.Mission, missions, missional, and all its linguistic variations are part of the expanding vocabulary and rhetoric of the contemporary Christian missionary enterprise. Its language and assumptions are deeply ingrained in the thought and speech of the church today. Christianity is a missionary religion and faithful churches are mission-minded. What's more, in telling the story of apostles and bishops and monks as missionaries, we think we have grasped the true thread of Christian history.But what about those odd shapes, those unsettling gaps and creases in the historical record? Is the language of mission so clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Is the trajectory of mission really so explicit from the early church to the present? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past?As with every reigning paradigm, there comes a point when enough questions surface to beg for a close and critical look, even when it may seem transgressive to do so. In this study of the language of mission - its origin, development, and application--Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity. There is both surprise and hope in this tale. And perhaps the beginnings of a new conversation.
