Binding: PaperbackPage Count: 351Publisher: InterVarsity PressISBN# : 9780830826117Availability: Usually ships the same business day.
According to Andreas Köstenberger and Peter O'Brien, this significant theme has rarely been given its due attention in biblical theology. Motivated by their passion to see God's mission carried out in today's world, they offer a comprehensive study of the theme of mission. In Salvation to the Ends of the Earth they explore the entire sweep of biblical history, including the Old Testament, the second-temple period, each New Testament Gospel, Paul and his writings, and the General Epistles and Revelation.
Among other questions, Köstenberger and O'Brien examine whether or not Old Testament Israel was called to mission, whether second-temple Judaism should be characterized as a missionary religion, whether Jesus limited his earthly mission to Israel or also embarked on a Gentile mission, and whether or not there is continuity between the missions of Israel and the missions of Jesus and the early church. They write, "It is our sincere hope that our Christian mission, which is first of all God's, will be founded on a biblical theology that takes its cue from the scriptural revelation as a whole." To that end, they offer this work as a service to the worldwide church.
"Together [Köstenberger and O'Brien] have written a biblical theology of mission that listens carefully to the biblical texts and follows the Bible's 'story-line' without flattening the diverse emphases of the various biblical books. Here is scholarship that matters: careful and even-handed, yet of transforming significance for all Christians serious about the mission of the church of Jesus Christ."--D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, Illinois)
a comprehensive study of the theme of mission throughout the Old and New Testaments
calls our attention to a central and essential theme in biblical theology
written by well-respected biblical scholars who are motivated to see God's mission carried out in today's world
aims to help Christians better understand their Bibles
scholarly and accessible!
includes notes interacting with the best of recent research and significant literature
volume text is uncluttered with untransliterated Greek and Hebrew or too much specialist jargon
written from a framework of confessional evangelicalism (while also engaging other relevant viewpoints
Monergism Review:
In light of the overwhelming abundance of materials on the practical aspects and New Testament examples of Christian mission, the relative scarcity of works intending to set forth the foundational principles of mission from the entire gamut of scriptural witness is conspicuous. This self-styled “biblical theology of mission” admirably fulfills a much-needed role in the pursuit of a rigorously biblical and redemptive-historically comprehensive framework for modern mission.
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