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A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Jonah is arguably just as jarring for us as it was for the ancients. Ninevah’s repentance, Jonah’s estrangement from God and the book’s bracing moral conclusion all pose unsettling questions for today’s readers. For biblical theologians, Jonah also raises tough questions regarding mission and religious conversion. Daniel Timmer embarks on a new reading of Jonah in order to secure its...

one notable similarity. Although Nineveh had repented, God was in no way obliged to deliver the city because they ‘turned from their evil way’, but spared them out of pure grace. God acts with grace toward both Nineveh and Jonah, underlining once again the compassionate character so forcefully presented at the beginning of Jonah 4. In a word, Jonah is not able to accord God the sovereignty to pour out his grace on his fallen image-bearers without discrimination.42 This is very closely
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