Examines how poor and working-class communities in Guadalajara organized through faith, education, and culture to claim dignity, justice, and the right to the city.Strength in Unity: Christian Base Communities and the Urban Popular Movement in Guadalajara, 1965–1994 presents the grassroots history of Guadalajara’s urban popular movement, centering the voices and struggles of poor and working-class communities, especially women, who organized for d...

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.

After over a century of settling a rough planet, constant warfare, and rough living, the residents of this remote planet are finally ready to sit back, have a nice, peaceful celebration, and relax.A visitor from another system finds himself an unwilling witness as this suddenly goes in directions that he hadn't expected at all.

Tackle Key Questions from the Past Two Decades in this Fully Updated EditionEngage with the latest scholarship on the biblical theology of mission and missional hermeneutics with Christopher J. H. Wright's classic text—nowfully revised and updated!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 ab...

Once upon a time, a few hundred years from now, Sheyhan, a petty street hustler, and Old Helga, a woman just trying to get by after decades of trouble, have to find a solution to an terrifying problem together, gathering friends and fellow outsiders to do something so huge that even they wonder if it can be done.Set in a world of sprawling, illegal markets and societies of street urchins. Of elegant, serene, temple complexes and grungy, rambunctious spaceports. Where your atmo suit...

Some people find the Old Testament to be confusing, out of date, and essentially replaced by the New Testament.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...

This a story of banquets and squatters. Temple noviates and plutocratic schemers. Gentle kisses and cooly planned murder.Emilio is a very clever young man. With a big circle of capable, ambitious, clever friends. Smooth, smart, and with a reputation for being able to get things done. Discretely. Things that may not be entirely legal or simply which a person with a certain position in society might not want publicly known.But when an equally ambitious up and comer in one of ...

What does the Bible say about God's purpose for us, the witness of the church, and our mission to spread the message of the gospel?Chris Wright's pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian understanding of "missions" encompasses only a small part of God's overarching mission for the world. God is relentlessly reclaiming the whole of creation for himself, and each of us fit into that big-picture plan.In The Mis...

This is both a glimpse into daily life aboard a Survey ship and a story about expections. About when you meet people who make very different choices from yours. A tale which speculates about some less expected ways that a society's science and government and ways of communicating may evolve. From paint brush to circuit board to planetary climate.When you're in a small ship in an alien system and nothing that they do seems to make much sense, how do you react? How does your crew rea...

Some people think the Old Testament has nothing to say about God as our Father, or about the Holy Spirit, whilst others try to find Jesus somewhere on every page of the Old Testament. Chris Wright brings a much-needed corrective to these misconceptions in his masterful three-in-one volume, Knowing God – The Trilogy. After exploring the identity and mission of Jesus in the light of the Scriptures he knew so well – our Old Testament, the book goes on to see how God reveals himself as Father ...

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'scharacter 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...

Many Christians believe that they have to understand everything about their faith for that faith to be genuine. This isn't true.There are many things we don't understand about God, His Word, and His works. And this is actually one of the greatest things about the Christian faith: that there are areas of mystery that lie beyond the keenest scholarship or even the most profound spiritual exercises. Sadly, for many people these problems raise so many questions and unc...