Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in MissionWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 3 de maig 2006 - 263 pàgines Christian mission in previous centuries often drew on images of imperial expansion and war. While few today would describe the gospel task in such imperialistic terms, have we developed appropriate alternate images to associate with the good news of Jesus Christ? In "Picturing Christian Witness" missiologist Stanley Skreslet searches for new, more holistic images of mission from Scripture. Undertaking a novel exegetical study of mission in the New Testament, he highlights five actions that depict the witness of Jesus' first followers: announcing good news, sharing Christ with friends, interpreting the gospel, shepherding, and building/planting. After carefully examining key biblical passages, Skreslet draws out the implications of these five images for the theology of mission and lets each image take shape visually through an array of Western and non-Western art. "Picturing Christian Witness" will provoke readers to imagine what mission will look like when actively embodied by contemporary disciples of Jesus. |
Continguts
Images and Mission | 1 |
New Images of Mission | 15 |
An Attempt at Another Approach | 18 |
In the Chapters That Follow | 29 |
Announcing Good News | 37 |
An Apprenticeship in Mission | 39 |
Proclaimers of Good News in Acts | 48 |
Announcers of Good News | 58 |
Mission As Interpretation after Acts | 147 |
Shepherding | 153 |
The Old Testament Background | 157 |
But Is It Mission? | 160 |
New Testament Approaches to Shepherding | 165 |
Peter the Shepherd | 175 |
Missionary Poimenics | 181 |
Building and Planting | 189 |
Striking an Evangelical Posture | 74 |
Sharing Christ with Friends | 79 |
Three Paths to Discipleship | 80 |
DiscipleMaking in John | 88 |
Picturing the Image | 98 |
Focusing on the Friends | 110 |
Interpreting the Gospel | 119 |
Inaugurating the Churchs Mission across Social Boundaries | 121 |
Pushing the Cultural Envelope in Acts | 128 |
The Vanishing Translator | 140 |
Interpreting Pauls Mission | 202 |
Building and Planting | 209 |
An Apostolic Model in a PostApostolic Age | 216 |
New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission | 225 |
Grasping the Big Picture | 230 |
Bibliography | 240 |
Index of Names and Subjects | 253 |
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