God Draws Near
Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission
Seiten
2025
Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-5409-6896-8 (ISBN)
Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-5409-6896-8 (ISBN)
Challenging the prevailing paradigm for biblical theology of mission, this book offers a new model that centers on God's purpose to draw near to humanity in fellowship.
In God Draws Near, Old Testament expert and missiologist Collin Cornell challenges conventional thinking about the theology of mission. The prevailing paradigm has been of a single grand story encompassing creation, fall, and redemption. The understanding of God's mission that follows is that of rescue or repair. In the first part of the book, Cornell interacts with and critiques this line of thinking, pointing out how it influences our interpretation of the canon of Scripture, our view of Israel, and even how we view Christ and his incarnation. These problems have consequences for mission practice.
Cornell then offers a new model for the biblical theology of mission, recentering it on God's purpose to draw near to creatures out of love and delight. The Song of Songs provides a key inspiration. Cornell argues that rather than being linear, the Bible is geometric, flowing outward from God's presence in the tabernacle in the Old Testament and in Christ in the New. This perspective honors God's relationship with Israel and keeps Christ at the center of God's work in the world.
God Draws Near will be of use to students, pastors, mission workers and educators, and interested lay readers. Even those who disagree with Cornell's approach and conclusions will need to grapple with his critiques and proposals.
In God Draws Near, Old Testament expert and missiologist Collin Cornell challenges conventional thinking about the theology of mission. The prevailing paradigm has been of a single grand story encompassing creation, fall, and redemption. The understanding of God's mission that follows is that of rescue or repair. In the first part of the book, Cornell interacts with and critiques this line of thinking, pointing out how it influences our interpretation of the canon of Scripture, our view of Israel, and even how we view Christ and his incarnation. These problems have consequences for mission practice.
Cornell then offers a new model for the biblical theology of mission, recentering it on God's purpose to draw near to creatures out of love and delight. The Song of Songs provides a key inspiration. Cornell argues that rather than being linear, the Bible is geometric, flowing outward from God's presence in the tabernacle in the Old Testament and in Christ in the New. This perspective honors God's relationship with Israel and keeps Christ at the center of God's work in the world.
God Draws Near will be of use to students, pastors, mission workers and educators, and interested lay readers. Even those who disagree with Cornell's approach and conclusions will need to grapple with his critiques and proposals.
Collin Cornell (PhD, Emory University) is assistant professor of Bible and mission at Fuller Theological Seminary in Houston, Texas. He is the author of two books on divine aggression and the editor of Divine Doppelgängers and The Incomparable God by Brent Strawn. He also cotranslated K. H. Miskotte's Biblical ABCs.
Introduction: The Problem of Repair as the Center of God's Mission
1. A Snapshot of the Dramatic Paradigm
2. The Emergence of the Dramatic Paradigm
3. The Geometric Bible
4. The Calling of Israel
5. The Incarnation
Conclusion
Indexes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Ada, MI |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5409-6896-0 / 1540968960 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5409-6896-8 / 9781540968968 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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