The Mission of God.(Book review)

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THE MISSION OF GOD. By Christopher J. H. Wright. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2006. Pp. 581. $38.

Wright lays out his agenda clearly: "My major concern has been to develop an approach to biblical hermeneutics that sees the mission of God (and the participation in it of God's people) as a framework within which we can read the whole Bible. Mission is, in my view, a major key that unlock[s] the whole grand narrative of the canon of Scripture" (17). Currently serving as director of International Ministries for the Langham Partnership and already an accomplished OT scholar, ...

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