Reading the Bible Missionally

by Michael Goheen

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2016

Overview

Insights from a noteworthy convergence of top scholars in biblical studies and missiology.

Over the past half century, it has become clear that mission is a central theme in the Bible’s narrative and, moreover, is central to the very identity of the church. This book significantly widens and deepens the emerging conversation on missional hermeneutics.

Essays from top biblical and missiological scholars discuss reading the Scriptures missionally, using mission as a key interpretive lens. Five introductory chapters probe various elements of a missional hermeneutic, followed by sections on the Old and New Testaments that include chapters on two books from each to illustrate what a missional reading of them looks like. Essays in two concluding sections draw out the implications of a missional reading of Scripture for preaching and for theological education.

Key Features

• Examines the general nature and meaning of a missional hermeneutic
• Discusses missional reading of the Old and New Testaments
• Explores the implications for preaching and theological education

Contents

• A Missional Hermeneutic
• A Missional Reading of the Old Testament
• A Missional Reading of the New Testament
• A Missional Reading of Scripture and Preaching
• A Missional Reading of Scripture and Theological Education

Top Highlights

“or as a mass of undigested theological facts ripe for systematizing⁵⁰ is to misunderstand the very nature of Scripture.” (Page 319)

“Consequently, the Psalter should be read not only christologically but also missionally.^{7” (Page 153)}

“Third, the gathering of the nations means that the form of God’s people changed. They are now a multiethnic community scattered throughout the world, and this new form brings fresh challenges.” (Page 24)

“That is the church constituted as God’s work of art, his poiēma. We are God’s poem, made so that the world can sing, see, and sense the rhythms of God’s love and power.” (Page 189)

“A second theme in Acts is the interplay of the centripetal and centrifugal dimensions of mission.” (Page 20)

Contributors

• Craig G. Bartholomew
• Richard Bauckham
• Carl J. Bosma
• Tim J. Davy
• Dean Flemming
• John R. Franke
• Mark Glanville
• Michael W. Goheen
• Joel B. Green
• Darrell L. Guder
• George R. Hunsberger
• Timothy M. Sheridan
• Christopher J. H. Wright
• N. T. Wright

Product Details

• Title: Reading the Bible Missionally
• Editor: Michael W. Goheen
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 357
• Resource Type: Collected Essays
• Topic: Biblical Interpretation

About Michael Goheen

Dr. Michael W. Goheen, professor of missiology at Calvin Theological Seminary, served as the Geneva Chair of Worldview Studies at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, and teaching fellow in mission studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He has taught worldview, biblical theology, mission, and world Christianity at Redeemer University College and Dordt College. He began his professional life as a church planter and pastor in the Toronto area. He is also recognized as a leading scholar on the thought of Lesslie Newbigin.

Dr. Goheen has authored several books, including A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church in the Biblical Story (Baker, 2010) and As the Father Has Sent Me, I am Sending You: J.E. Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology (Zoetermeer, 2000). He also coauthored the best-selling Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (Baker, 2004), Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview (Baker, 2008), and The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama (Faith Alive, 2009). He has also coedited two volumes on globalization and the gospel, and on the unity of the church.

Dr. Goheen lives in the Vancouver area where he is minister of preaching at New West Christian Reformed Church. He’s been married to his wife, Marnie, for 33 years and has four married children and four grandchildren.

 

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