Mission-Commitment in Ancient Judaism and in the Pauline Communities: The Shape, Extent and Background of Early Christian Mission
McKnight, Scot, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Mission-Commitment in Ancient Judaism and in the Pauline Communities: The Shape, Extent and Background of Early Christian Mission. By John P. Dickson. WUNT 2/159. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. xiii + 413 pp., euro 64.00 paper.
Comprehending the early church as a missionary movement is once again coming to the fore of academic discussion, as witnessed especially in Eckhard Schnabel's exhaustive and exceptional Urchristliche Mission (Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 2002; now available in ET: Early Christian Mission [IVP, 2004]). Because some have made more extravagant claims than the NT actually supports, John P. Dickson, an Anglican minister in Sydney, suggests a theory about how …
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Publication information:
Article title: Mission-Commitment in Ancient Judaism and in the Pauline Communities: The Shape, Extent and Background of Early Christian Mission.
Contributors: McKnight, Scot - Author.
Journal title: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.
Volume: 48.
Issue: 1
Publication date: March 2005.
Page number: 147+.
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