Bible and Mission : Christian Witness in a Postmodern World,9780801027710

Bible and Mission : Christian Witness in a Postmodern World

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ISBN13: 9780801027710
ISBN10: 0801027713
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Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Baker Academic
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Summary

Exploring how the themes of universality and particularity are related in the Bible, Bauckham shows how universal blessing comes through God's work in one particular geographic location -- the land of Israel. The way in which God's love for all is mediated through the particular story of a particular people in a particular land opens up creative ways of handling the challenges of mission in our 'strange new world'. Bible and Mission will stimulate fresh thinking and will be of interest to students of the Bible and essential reading to practitioners, teachers and students of mission. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Richard Bauckham, (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is professor of New Testament studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of numerous volumes, including The Theology of the Book of Revelation, God Crucified, and God and the Crisis of Freedom.

Table of Contents

The Easneye Lectures vii
Joe M. Kapolyo
The Frumentius Lectures xi
Steve Bryan
Author's Preface xiii
1. A Hermeneutic for the Kingdom of God 1(26)
The World after 9/11- between McWorld and Jihad?
1(10)
Outlines of a hermeneutic for the kingdom of God
11(10)
Anticipated closure and permanent narrative openness
21(6)
2. From the One to the Many 27(28)
From Abraham to all the families of the earth
28(8)
From Israel to all the nations
36(5)
The king who rules from Zion to the ends of the earth
41(8)
To all by way of the least
49(6)
3. Geography - Sacred and Symbolic 55(28)
Geographical horizon and representative geography
55(10)
The Centre and the Horizon
65(7)
Seeking and sending - or: from here to there, from there to here
72(8)
A diaspora people
80(3)
4. Witness to the Truth in a Postmodern and Globalized World 83
The biblical story and the postmodern critique
83(7)
The biblical story as a non-modern metanarrative
90(4)
The biblical story and economic globalization
94(4)
The biblical story and witness to truth
98(5)
Witness in the face of globalizing power
103(6)
The biblical story and cultural diversity
109(1)
Conclusion
110

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