Picturing Christian witness : New Testament images of disciples in mission

Stanley H. Skreslet
Grand Rapids, Mich : William B. Eerdmans Pub, c2006
xv, 263 p., 8 p. of plates ; 23 cm
Book
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  • 1. Images and Mission : The Power of Images
  • Wanted: New Images of Mission
  • An Attempt at Another Approach
  • In the Chapters That Follow . . .
  • 2. Announcing Good News : The Social Setting of Christian Witness
  • An Apprenticeship in Mission
  • Proclaimers of Good News in Acts
  • Representing an Idea: Announcers of Good News
  • Striking an Evangelical Posture
  • 3. Sharing Christ with Friends : From Public to Private
  • Three Paths to Discipleship
  • Disciple-Making in John
  • Back to the Synoptics: Picturing the Image
  • Focusing on the Friends
  • 4. Interpreting the Gospel : Communicating Good News across Cultures
  • Pentecost: Inaugurating the Church's Mission across Social Boundaries
  • Pushing the Cultural Envelope in Acts
  • The Vanishing Translator
  • Mission As Interpretation after Acts
  • 5. Shepherding : Disciples As Shepherds
  • The Old Testament Background
  • But Is It Mission?
  • New Testament Approaches to Shepherding
  • Peter the Shepherd
  • Missionary Poimenics
  • 6. Building and Planting
  • Paul the Apostle
  • Interpreting Paul's Mission
  • Building and Planting
  • An Apostolic Model in a Post-Apostolic Age
  • 7. New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission
  • A Brief Recapitulation
  • Grasping the Big Picture
  • ill. (some col.)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-254) and indexes
  • William B. Eerdmans Pub
  • 0802829562
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