Why Mission?

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Why Mission? (Reframing New Testament Theology)

Dean Flemming. Publisher: Abingdon Press, 2015.

Reviewed by Marcus Dean, associate professor and chair, Department of Intercultural Studies, Houghton College; former missionary in Colombia and Puerto Rico.

Synopsis

In Why Mission? Dean Flemming models a missional hermeneutic for the New Testament. He starts with the premise that a “missional interpretation consciously reads scripture as a witness to the gracious mission of the triune God…” (p. xix). Flemming adds that the big picture of God’s mission is “to redeem and reclaim a rebellious and sinful world…” (p. xix).


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