previous treatments of the theme of mission have tended either (1) to be descriptive and to stress the diversity of the different portions of Scripture, or (2) to assume the pre-eminence of mission in a given book of Scripture at the outset, and then to find these assumptions confirmed in the study of the respective biblical writings. The present work seeks to follow a third path, combining a commitment to a biblical-theological method and a salvation-historical approach with an openness to examining
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