Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (Biblia.com)

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This engaging study provides a new way of looking at Scripture—one that takes seriously the biblical idea of mission. Richard Bauckham shows how God identifies himself with particular individuals or people in human history in order to be known by all. He is the God of Abraham, Israel, and David and, finally, the one who acts through Jesus Christ. Bauckham applies these insights to the...

particular only to religion. Both are genuinely true of God. We do not find God by abstracting God from the particularities of God’s history with Israel. We find the universal God in his particularity as the God of Israel and (Christians may add to what Jonathan Sacks might say) also as the God of Jesus. I have taken this route into the subject of this book because the issue of universality and particularity is essential to what I shall say about mission and what I shall say about the way the Bible

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