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Preface | p. xiii |
Abbreviations | p. xv |
Introduction and Survey of Approaches | p. 1 |
Survey of Approaches | p. 2 |
Pre-1950 | p. 5 |
Apostle-Church Mission Continuity | p. 5 |
Gustav Warneck | p. 5 |
Roland Allen | p. 8 |
Adolf von Harnack | p. 11 |
Carl von Weizsacker | p. 13 |
Michael Green | p. 15 |
Apostle-Church Mission Discontinuity | p. 16 |
Paul Wernle | p. 16 |
Ernest Renan and William Wrede | p. 18 |
1950-Present | p. 22 |
Apostle-Church Mission Discontinuity | p. 22 |
Heinrich Greeven et al. | p. 22 |
W-H. Ollrog | p. 23 |
W. P. Bowers | p. 24 |
David Bosch | p. 25 |
John P. Dickson | p. 26 |
Stephen Chambers | p. 27 |
Apostle-Church Mission Continuity | p. 28 |
Douwe van Swigchem | p. 28 |
Peter T. O'Brien | p. 31 |
James Patrick Ware | p. 33 |
I. Howard Marshall | p. 35 |
Eckhard J. Schnabel | p. 35 |
John Piper | p. 37 |
G. K. Beale | p. 37 |
Norbert Schmidt | p. 38 |
Conclusion | p. 41 |
The Church's Mission in the Pauline Letters: A Theological Basis for Apostolic Continuity | p. 43 |
Definitions | p. 43 |
Church | p. 43 |
Apostle | p. 45 |
Theological Basis of the Church's Apostolic Mission | p. 48 |
The Nature of the Gospel | p. 50 |
The Gospel as "Power" | p. 51 |
The Dynamic Gospel and Paul's Apostolic Mission | p. 56 |
The Dynamic Gospel and the Church's Mission | p. 59 |
Paul's Theology of Mission within the Broader New Testament Understanding of the Church's Mission | p. 64 |
Conclusion | p. 67 |
Excursus: Discontinuity of Missionary Activity Between the Old Testament and the New Testament | p. 68 |
Excursus: Pauline Co-workers | p. 69 |
Paul's Instructions to Evangelize | p. 71 |
Paul's Commands to Witness Actively | p. 72 |
Paul's Instructions to the Philippians to Proclaim the Gospel | p. 72 |
Paul's Instructions to the Ephesians to Proclaim the Gospel | p. 77 |
Paul's Instructions to the Corinthians to Evangelize | p. 81 |
First Corinthians 4:16 | p. 83 |
First Corinthians 11:1 | p. 85 |
First Corinthians 7:12-16 | p. 93 |
First Corinthians 14:23-25 | p. 94 |
The Church's Active Witness: Concluding Thoughts | p. 96 |
Pauline Commands to Witness Passively | p. 96 |
Conclusion | p. 105 |
Incidental Evidence that Paul Expected the Churches to Spread the Gospel in the Apostolic Pattern | p. 107 |
Miracles, Prayer and Teaching in Paul and in the Church | p. 107 |
Divine Confirmation of the Gospel through Miracles | p. 107 |
Praying for Missions and the Church | p. 111 |
Teaching and Building up the Church | p. 117 |
Suffering in Paul and in the Church | p. 121 |
Christian Identity: Why the Apostles and Church Suffered | p. 121 |
The Social and Historical Context of Christian Suffering | p. 126 |
Patterns of Christian Suffering in the Pauline Letters | p. 128 |
Second Corinthians 4:7-15 | p. 128 |
Colossians 1:24-25 | p. 131 |
Philippians | p. 134 |
First and Second Thessalonians | p. 135 |
Conclusion | p. 138 |
Conclusions and Implications | p. 141 |
Conclusions | p. 141 |
Implications | p. 144 |
Bibliography | p. 147 |
Scripture Index | p. 177 |
Modern Author Index | p. 187 |
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