We were pleased to host Christopher J.H. Wright
at Southeastern Seminary last week as he delivered the annual Page
Lectures. His theme for the lectures was “The Bible and the Mission of
God,” which is an important and somewhat controversial topic among
evangelicals. His two lectures were titled “Reading the Whole Bible for
Mission: What Happens When We do?” and “God, Israel, and the Nations:
The Old Testament and Christian Mission.” Both of his excellent lectures
can be viewed on the multimedia page of the SEBTS website.
Wright
is a prolific Old Testament scholar and missional theologian. He is the
author of a couple of very important books on mission titled The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (IVP Academic, 2006) and The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission
(Zondervan, 2010). In those books, Wright lays out a holistic
understanding of mission that is rooted in the Bible’s grand narrative
and that results in the final redemption of the cosmos. The church
participates in God’s mission by proclaiming the good news of God’s
salvation in Christ through word and deed in every sphere of life. In
many ways, this view of mission is a continuation of the position
advocated by John Stott in his classic book Christian Mission in the Modern World (IVP, 1975) and articulated by the Lausanne movement through the Lausanne Covenant (1974), Manila Manifesto (1989), and Cape Town Commitment (2011). Keep Reading>>>
See Also: Mission Critical
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