context. Furthermore, the theme of God’s great missionary purpose to bless the nations through Abraham and his people excited me as I traced it everywhere, and in its climax in the missionary theology of Paul, apostle to the nations and the second great OT missiologist (after Jesus). Missiology was not another of those post-biblical doctrines of my teenage misunderstanding. The Bible itself was missiological from cover to core. Our five years in India blended the two passions together. The ethical