Redemptive Kingdom Diversity: A Biblical Theology of the People of God

by Jarvis J. Williams

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2021

Overview

This book offers a comprehensive biblical and theological survey of the people of God in the Old and New Testaments, offering insights for today’s transformed and ethnically diverse church.

Jarvis Williams explains that God’s people have always been intended to be a diverse community. From Genesis to Revelation, God has intended to restore humanity’s vertical relationship with God, humanity’s horizontal relationship with one another, and the entire creation through Jesus. Through Jesus, both Jew and gentile are reconciled to God and together make up a transformed people.

Williams then applies his biblical and theological analysis to selected aspects of the current conversation about race, racism, and related issues, explaining what it means to be the church in today’s multiethnic context. He argues that the church should demonstrate redemptive kingdom diversity, for it has been transformed into a new community that is filled with many diverse ethnic communities.

Key Features

• Argues that the church should demonstrate redemptive kingdom diversity
• Explains what it means to be the church in today’s multiethnic context
• Applies a biblical and theological analysis to selected aspects of the current conversation about race

Product Details

• Title: Redemptive Kingdom Diversity: A Biblical Theology of the People of God
• Author: Jarvis J. Williams
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 207
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Ethnicity in the Bible; Ethnicity › Biblical teaching; Ethnicity › Religious aspects--Christianity; Cultural pluralism › Biblical teaching; Cultural pluralism › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781493432622, 9781540964625, 9781540964601, 9781493432608, 1493432621, 1540964620, 1540964604, 1493432605
• Resource ID: LLS:RDMPTVKNGDMPPGD
• Resource Type: text.monograph.biblical-theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:36:16Z

About Jarvis J. Williams

Jarvis J. Williams is an Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He’s published numerous academic monographs and scholarly articles and essays on Paul’s soteriology (broadly defined) in Romans and Galatians in its Second Temple Jewish context. Williams’s research focuses on soteriology in Second Temple Judaism, the Second Temple context of Paul’s soteriology, and Romans, Galatians, and Ephesians. He’s a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.