Salvific Intentionality In 1 Corinthians: How Paul Cultivates The Missional Imagination Of The Corinthian Community

There are few matters more important than God’s mission in the world. This book offers a fresh contribution to a long-standing debate in Pauline and missional studies regarding the apparent absence of a missionary mandate for the churches of the New Testament. Through a literary and socio-rhetorical study of 1 Corinthians, and in conversation with emerging social identity theories, this book invites the reader to consider how Paul’s missional expectations may have been received and put into practice in first-century Corinth by the first readers. Along the way some new lines of inquiry are opened for certain texts which have remained for a long time in a state of scholarly stalemate. But these technical discussions give way to a larger goal: to offer a missiology in action, in all its Corinthian complexity. Could such an approach inform a robust mission identity for the church of today? As the Western church searches for a new self-understanding in an increasingly post-Christian culture, the intention of this book is to cultivate the missional imagination of contemporary believers for their ongoing participation in God’s mission in the world.

• | Author: Scott Goode
• | Publisher: Wipf And Stock
• | Publication Date: Jul 06, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 148 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1666771767
• | ISBN-13: 9781666771763