For Their Rock Is Not As Our Rock Joseph Part 1: Encountering Mission in

Part 1: Encountering Mission in the Scriptures

The pendulum has swung to the longing for transcendence

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Editors Iain M

“Voddie Baucham has thrown a spanner in the works of those writers and preachers who see little more in the biblical narratives than unrelated moral and spiritual lessons that are ingeniously applied directly to us

For Their Rock Is Not As Our Rock Joseph Part 1: Encountering Mission inThe reality of our post Christendom, post colonial, post Holocaust, post 9 11, multi ethnic and multicultural context has meant that, more than ever, Christians are acutely aware of the questions posed not simply by the existence of other religions, but also by their apparent flourishing. If secularization is still alive and well, then, seemingly, so too is society's sacralization. Hence, the theology of religions is arguably the issue for mission in