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The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and all about God’s mission. In order to understand the Bible, we need a missional hermeneutic, an interpretive perspective in tune with this great missional theme. We need to see how the familiar bits and...

creates, on the one hand, the usages “the God” and “the god of gods,” and, on the other hand, the contemptuous “non-god” (32:17: loʾ ʾᵉloah; 32:21: loʾ ʾel), and “their mere puffs of air” (32:21: habᵉlehem). Though called gods, the other gods do not really deserve the term, because they are not effective divinities acting with power in the world. YHWH alone is the God with supreme power … 32:39).… It is not enough to observe that Deuteronomy does not deny the existence of other gods. We should also
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