God Draws Near

God Draws NearIn God Draws Near, Old Testament expert and missiologist Collin Cornell challenges conventional thinking about the theology of mission. The prevailing paradigm has been of a single grand story encompassing creation, fall, and redemption. The understanding of God's mission that follows is that of rescue or repair. In the first part of the book, Cornell interacts with and critiques this line of thinking, pointing out how it influences our interpretation

and missions

makes an authoritative contribution to the debate concerning Barth's trinitarian theology and doctrine of election

demonstrating that knowledge of a genre's characteristics enriches one's understanding of individual passages

This book creatively merges theological and philosophical reflection with illustrations from film

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Keener mines the historical

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Anyone interested in place and related environmental themes

interpreting it

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