What do we understand by integral mission and how do we connect it to the Great Commission? Is mission a specialist activity just for a selected few?Wright’s offers theological reflections on these questions by expounding five dimensions of Christian mission, in which every member of the church ought to participate. These should spark off conversations and initiatives that lead to greater integration and alignment of the tasks of the church with God’s mission.

Engage with the latest scholarship on the biblical theology of mission and missional hermeneutics with Christopher J. H. Wright's classic text.Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible itself. The entire Bible is generated by and is all about God's mission. In order to understand the Scriptures, we need a missional hermeneutic, an interpretive perspective in sync wit...

Some people find the Old Testament to be confusing, out of date, and essentially replaced by the New Testament. They are missing out. The Old Testament offers us a grand narrative that reveals God's work, God's purposes, and God's wisdom. Christopher J. H. Wright fits the pieces together and shows us the coherent whole. Using seven key sentences drawn straight from the Old Testament, he connects the dots and points us toward Jesus."In the beginning God created the heavens and the e...

Christianity Today 2024 Book Award (Missions/Global Church)Outreach 2024 Resource of the Year (Mission and Cross-Cultural)Highly regarded biblical scholar and speaker Christopher Wright shows us that how we read the Bible has a profound impact on how we understand what mission is. According to Wright, "People read (and preach) the Bible in tiny bits and pieces, for its promises or rules or doctrines, and fail to take it . ...

We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Today the debate over who Jesus is rages on. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church's Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to our contemporary pluralistic world? To answer these questions we need to know what story Jesus c...

How should Christians live? On the one hand, some very legalistic Christians stress the importance of keeping all the rules—that you must do this and never do that if you want to prove you are really a Christian. On the other hand, there are those who reject the whole idea of rules or traditions in the church and see the point of the Christian faith as setting us free from the institutionalized religious burden.But Paul addresses these two competing views by showing us a far better...

It's almost second nature for Christians to call God Father. Jesus taught his followers as much, although for them it was apparently a surprising practice. The worshiping community of the Old Testament used fatherly images for understanding God's character and actions, but "Father" was not a common way for believers to address God. In Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Christopher Wright explores in depth the images that pervade the biblical narratives, psalms, and ...

We tend to think of the Holy Spirit as the straggler of the Trinity, a latecomer in God's interaction with the world. But our first introduction to the Holy Spirit is not the drama of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts. We first meet the Holy Spirit in the second verse of the Bible, hovering there, speaking the world into existence. Christopher Wright begins here and traces the Holy Spirit through the pages of the Old Testament. We see the Third Person of the Trinity in the decrees of...

在整本聖經和整個人類歷史裡面，我們都看見了上帝宣教的身影；我們的上帝，乃是一位宣教中的上帝。祂所面對的宣教處境，是受造的人類犯罪墮落、與祂的關係全然破裂，罪惡與死亡壟罩其上；列國之間不斷地爭競與鬥爭，衝突頻仍，而所有的生物和大地，也受到咒詛的影響，發出深沉的勞苦與嘆息。世界的歷史，似乎就要如此沉淪循環下去，與祂原本創造的心意漸行漸遠。然而，這一切的困難，不能阻止上帝的心意，因為祂有一個使命，就是要使萬有重享祂的祝福，這個使命必定會達成！上帝以超乎我們想像的方式，展開了祂的宣教：祂透過在歷史中的救贖與審判、耶穌的道成肉身，讓以色列及萬國認識祂的屬性與心意；祂更親身對抗一切的偶像崇拜，要使全地看見惟獨祂配得尊崇。藉著祂所揀選的子民，從亞伯拉罕開始，啟動一份祝福萬國、救贖萬國的使命，帶來社會、政治、經濟與靈性的整全救恩。在祂所創造的世界中，上帝要恢復人類的榮美形像，使萬國都能與祂建立盟約的關係。在《宣教中的上帝》當中，集舊約神學家與宣教學者身分於一身的萊特博士，帶領我們從創世記到啟示...

上帝，你理解嗎？當信仰碰上一些難題，該怎麼解決？ 特別是苦難的問題：為何上帝允許苦難，苦難的道理何在？ 對迦南人的殺戮：這聲稱自己愛世人的上帝竟是可怕的種族清洗者？ 十字架更是讓人困惑：父神虐待自己無辜的兒子為要拯救罪人？ 世界末日又是怎麼一回事（如果真的有的話）？地球有一天將會毀滅，基督徒得以靈魂上天堂嗎？這樣是聖經給我們的盼望嗎？還是民間信仰的遺毒？儘管萊特謙卑地承認人的有限及侷限，聲稱不理解許多關於上帝行事的奧祕，但卻鍥而不捨地從聖經中找答案。與其說試著回應許這些難解的問題，聖經學者萊特其實幫我們上了一堂紮實的聖經綜覽課程，因為萊特不是抽象思辨這些問題，而是貼著聖經的脈絡，總是從整個聖經大的故事架構中來看問題。【作者介紹】萊特（Christopher J. H. Wright）是當今福音派重量級的舊約神學家。劍橋哲學博士，聖公會按立牧師，也曾擔任萬國宣教學院（All Nations Christian College）院長，並在印度普納（Pune）的聯合聖...

本書前身是《認識舊約倫理學》（Living as the People of God, 台北：校園），該書自一九八三年問世以來，廣受好評。如今經過大幅修改，重新編排，納入作者另一本書Walking in the Ways of the Lord的素材，再加上學術界舊約倫理研究的最新綜覽，最後集結而成。全書清新易懂，適合一般基督徒閱讀，而且參考書目詳盡，學生也能從中獲益。如果想要從倫理的角度來認識和應用舊約，到底應該怎麼做才好？若是直接栽入經文之中，尋找與倫理議題相關的經文，往往會犯上抽離歷史、文學、文化脈絡的危險。而且舊約的時空文化，跟我們大不相同，遇到難解之處時，又該如何是好？究竟要怎麼做，才能讓舊約聖經針對今日的倫理議題發出聲音呢？本書的作者萊特，這位重量級的福音派舊約神學家、倫理學者，提供我們一個令人振奮的新方法──進入舊約所表達的宏大敘事之中，發現整個故事對我們的倫理意義。透過神學、社會和經濟的倫理三角架構，他先幫助今日的讀者把自己擺在以色列的位置上，探究這群子民如何認知、體驗他們與上帝的關係，以及這樣的體驗如何影響...

Este libro guía al lector por el libro de Daniel, revelando su mensaje para vivir con fidelidad en medio de la hostilidad política, la presión cultural y la confusión espiritual. Lejos de ser una obra especulativa sobre el fin de los tiempos, se centra en cómo sus historias y visiones desafían y fortalecen a los creyentes en contextos no cristianos. En su obra, Wright aborda preguntas difíciles: ¿Cómo permanecer fieles cuando los sistemas y poderes que nos rodean se oponen a nuestras convi...