The Church in the Bible and the World: An International Study
Overview
As Christianity impacts vastly different social contexts around the world, new questions arise about the interpretation of the church’s biblical identity and mission. Contributors such as Edmund P. Clowney, Ronald Y.K. Fung, and D.A. Carson, discuss mission, ministry, worship, syncretism, persecution, biblical theology, and more in these essays from the World Evangelical Fellowship.
For more by D.A. Carson, see Wipf & Stock D.A. Carson Collection (5 vols.).
Key Features
- Analysis of how the church impacts different cultures around the world
- Addresses questions about the church’s identity and mission
- Excellent contributions from world-renowned scholars
Contents
- “The Biblical Theology of the Church” by Edmund P. Clowney
- “The Church as a Heavenly and Eschatological Entity” by Peter T. O’Brien
- “Worship in the New Testament Church” by Russell P. Shedd
- “Ministry in the New Testament” by Ronald Y.K. Fung
- “Church and Mission: Reflections on Contextualization and the Third Horizon” by D.A. Carson
- “Syncretism, Secularization, and Renewal” by Sunand Sumithra
- “The Church and Persecution” by David H. Adeney
Top Highlights
“The key to the meaning of ‘assembly’ is found in God’s command to Moses: ‘Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children’ (Dt. 4:10). The assembly is a gathering to meet with God.” (Page 17)
“The concept of the people of God as assembly has its Old Testament roots in the gathering of Israel before the Lord at Mount Sinai.” (Pages 16–17)
“God’s assembly at Sinai is therefore the immediate goal of the exodus. God brings his people into his presence that they might hear his voice and worship him. ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me’ (Ex. 20:2, 3). Standing in the assembly of the Lord, hearing his voice, the people gain their identity from the self-identification of the Lord.” (Page 18)
“Martin Luther thanked God that even a child of seven knows what the church is. ‘Let the church focus on the gospel, preach Christ and him crucified, and the church will become part of the answer instead of the problem’. That is the way Luther’s point is often made today.” (Page 13)
“Certainly we cannot begin our understanding of the church with sociological analysis. We must begin with the teaching of the Bible, and return to the Bible again and again to deepen and renew our understanding. Theology is reflective; we do understand God’s revelation better as the context of our own experience widens and varies our perspective. But the church rests upon the foundation of apostolic teaching. The authoritative words of the inspired witnesses chosen and endued of the Spirit communicate to us the full and final revelation of Jesus Christ (Acts 10:39–42; Heb. 2:2–4; Rev. 22:18, 19).” (Page 14)
- Title: The Church in the Bible and the World: An International Study
- Author: D. A. Carson
- Publisher: World Evangelical Fellowship
- Print Publication Date: 1987
- Logos Release Date: 2003
- Pages: 360
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church › Biblical teaching; Church › Mission of the church
- ISBNs: 9781592440474, 9780801025266, 1592440479, 0801025265
- Resource ID: LLS:42.110.55
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:20:07Z
D.A. Carson (b. 1946) is one of the most respected New Testament scholars in the world. A respected teacher, author, and speaker, he is currently research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the president of The Gospel Coalition. He has served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church and as the first dean of the seminary of Northwest Baptist Theological College, now known as Northwest Baptist Seminary. Logos has collected his sermons—including audio—in the D.A. Carson Sermon Archive.
Carson lectures in academic and church settings around the world, and is the author of more than 50 books, including Exegetical Fallacies, Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John, The Gagging of God, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 and the Intolerance of Tolerance. He is the editor of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, and coedited of the Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament with G.K. Beale, and the Studies in New Testament Greek series with Stanley Porter. You can find more of Carson’s work in the Baker D.A. Carson Collection (15 vols.).