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Title: Mission in the Old Testament: Israel As a Light to the Nations by Walter C., Jr. Kaiser ISBN: 0-8010-2228-2 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A Christian Approach to Jews and Gentiles
Comment: The thesis is that the goal of the OT is to see both Jews and Gentiles come to a saving knowledge of the Messiah who was to come. The story begins in Genesis 1-11 where God is a 'God all Nations' (or ethnic groups) and the election of Israel as a kingdom of priests in Exodus provides the basis for the NT doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Gentiles who benefit from the outreach of the grace of God include Melchizedek, Jethro and Rahab, and Naaman is an example of a Gentile conversion. The message finds its climax in Second Isaiah and Paul's mission to the Gentiles which was of course rooted in the OT.
Readers content with an uncritical account of the OT reflecting traditional conservative hermeneutics will enjoy reading it and preachers who begin where Kaiser begins will find helpful ideas. Scholars and serious students may question whether it is possible to adopt such a blanket approach to the phrase 'God of all nations' and some who accept it will still wonder whether this makes Israel a missionary nation.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Commission starts in Genesis
Comment: Mission is the subject matter of this book. For most people, a study of the mission of the church turns first to Jesus and the Great Commission of Matthew 28:18-20. Kaiser, an Old Testament scholar, explores the idea that the divine mission to the world did not begin with the Great Commission in Matthew but actually began in the Bible as early as Genesis 3:15. After making his case that Genesis 1 - 11 is decidedly universalistic in its scope, Kaiser focuses on the call of Abraham in Genesis 12. Kaiser calls this the first "great commission" in the Bible. Kaiser traces the universalistic nature of God's call through Genesis and Exodus, through the Psalms and into the prophets. Kaiser's work is thankfully not weighted down with scholarly jargon, while it is thoroughly grounded in sound biblical scholarship. A most fascinating chapter on the apostle Paul's understanding of mission grounds Paul's marching orders for his missionary zeal squarely in the Old Testament, particularly the Psalms and Isaiah. This little book provides an important corrective to the idea that God suddenly gave up on Israel and switched to the Gentiles. Correctly understood, God from the beginning was seeking a people who encompassed all the nations of the world. In a day when some want to make the tent of God's family smaller, Kaiser points out that God's promises have always been for all the nations.
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Title: Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission (New Studies in Biblical Theology) by Andreas J. Kostenberger, Peter T. O'Brien ISBN: 0830826114 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach (American Society of Missiology Series, No 27) by William J. Larkin, Joel F. Williams ISBN: 1570751692 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Let the Nations Be Glad! 2d ed. by John Piper, Tom Steller ISBN: 080102613X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission by David Jacobus Bosch ISBN: 0883447193 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission by Lesslie Newbigin ISBN: 0802808298 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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