the this-worldly, near-utopian universalism characteristic of this view of mission.7 Etymologically, shalom is a multi-coloured word. The root meaning is ‘to be whole, uninjured, undivided’, and it is used in an enormous variety of ways from describing everyday things of domestic life to the most profound religious expectations. At its most basic it describes general well-being, a wholly satisfactory condition (Gn. 15:15; 26:29; Ex. 18:23; Jdg. 19:20; 1 Sa.
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