The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative

by Wright, Christopher J. H.

• ISBN13: 9780830825714
• ISBN10: 0830825711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-30
• Publisher: Ivp Academic

Summary

Winner, 2007Christianity TodayMissions/Global Affairs BookMost Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that mission is bigger than that--there is in fact a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and is all about God's mission.In order to understand the Bible, we need a missional hermeneutic of the Bible, an interpretive perspective that is in tune with this great missional theme. We need to see the "big picture" of God's mission and how the familiar bits and pieces fit into the grand narrative of Scripture.Beginning with the Old Testament and the groundwork it lays for understanding who God is, what he has called his people to be and do, and how the nations fit into God's mission, Wright gives us a new hermeneutical perspective on Scripture. This new perspective provides a solid and expansive basis for holistic mission. Wright emphasizes throughout a holistic mission as the proper shape of Christian mission. God's mission is to reclaim the world--and that includes the created order--and God's people have a designated role to play in that mission.

Table of Contents

The Bible and mission	p. 29
Searching for a missional hermeneutic	p. 33
Shaping a missional hermeneutic	p. 48
The God of mission	p. 71
The living God makes himself known in Israel	p. 75
The living God makes himself known in Jesus Christ	p. 105
The living God confronts idolatry	p. 136
The people of mission	p. 189
God's elect people : chosen for blessing	p. 191
God's particular people : chosen for all	p. 222
God's model of redemption : the exodus	p. 265
God's model of restoration : the jubilee	p. 289
The span of God's missional covenant	p. 324
The life of God's missional people	p. 357
The arena of mission	p. 393
Mission and God's earth	p. 397
Mission and God's image	p. 421
God and the nations in Old Testament vision	p. 454
God and the nations in New Testament mission	p. 501
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