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Boot Joseph, ;
The Mission of God : A Manifesto of Hope for Society / Boot Joseph. — London : Wilberforce Publications, 2016. — 673 P.. — ISBN 9780957572560
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Contents
I Acknowledgments
II Foreword to the Second Edition
III Foreword to the First Edition
Author’s Introduction
0.1 Epochal Turning Points
0.2 Autobiographical Apologia
0.3 Back to the Future
0.4 Puritans Old and New
0.5 The New Puritanism Within the Context of Pluralism
0.6 The Challenge of the Emergent Church
0.7 Authentic Pluralism
0.8 The Missio Dei
Part I The Mission of God: Studies in a Biblical Perspective
Chapter 1 In Understanding be Men:
The Crisis of our Age and the Recovery of the Gospel
1.1 The Lost Word
1.2 A Puritan Response
1.3 Puritanism – Alive and Kicking?
1.4 Who were the Puritans?
1.5 A Cromwellian Case in Point
1.6 Puritanism and the Missio Dei
1.7 Puritans and the Present
1.8 The Cultural Mandate
Chapter 2 In Him all Things Hold Together:
The Dangers of Dualism
2.1 Authority and Duality
2.2 The Consequences of Duality
2.3 Faulty Eschatology: Old Errors, New Outfit
2.4. Theological Amnesia: Recovering our Cultural Memory
2.5 Divorcing the Word: The Artificial Separation of Old and NEW tESTAMENTS
2.5.1 Christ and the Law
2.5.2 Paul and the Law
2.6 The Augustinian and Calvinistic Traditions
Chapter 3 Known unto the Lord are all His Works:
A Christian Vision of History and the Western World
3.1 Books and Barbarians
3.2 Historiography
3.3 The Bible and History: The Christian Perspective
3.4 Competing Views of History
3.5 History and politics
3.6 Western History and Culture
3.7 Law, History and Political Life
3.8 Conclusions: God’s Victory in History
Chapter 4 No Name Under Heaven:
The Religion of Statism and the Significance of Chalcedon
4.1 The Significance of the Challenge
4.2 Chalcedon and the Priciple of Liberty
4.3 Statism and Contemporary Missiology
Chapter 5 I saw Satan Fall: Utopia. The Counterfeit Kingdom of God
5.1 Kingdom and Utopia.
5.2 The Utopian Imperative
5.3 A New Doctrine of God: The Unity of the Utopian Godhead
5.3.1 Justice
5.3.2 Love
5.4 The Omnipotence of the Utopian Godhead
5.5 Posthuman Omnipotence
5.6 The Wrath of Man
5.7 The Omniscience of the Godhead
5.8 Babel is Broken
5.9 A Religious Worldview
Chapter 6 You Shall Not Pervert Justice:
Relating Evangelism, Justice and the Kingdom
6.1 Evangelism and the Kingdom of God
6.2 Evangelism, the Church, and the Pursuit of Justice
6.3 Defining Justice and the Social Theory of the Kingdom
6.4 Bosch and Brueggemann: Banishment of the Law
6.5 Generous Justice?
6.6 Charity, Justice and the State
6.7 Means and Motive in the Struggle for Justice
6.8 Eucharisttic Faith or Environmentalism
Chapter 7 Strange Fire: Understanding Jubilee and Atonement
7.1 Land, Liberty and Economics
7.2 Debt, Atonement and Jubilee
7.3 Strange Fire
7.4 Service and Stewardship
Chapter 8 Sit at My Right Hand:
Law, Theocracy and Contemporary Relevance
8.1 History, Continuity and Relevance
8.2 An Instituting Consideration of the Relevance of Law
8.3 The Source of Law: Nature or God
8.4 The New Puritan Perspective
8.5 Theocracy and the Kingdom of God
8.6 Slander, Fallacy and False Charges
8.7 The Slow Development of Tyranny
8.8 Law, Sanctification and Theocracy
Chapter 9 God’s Servant for Your Good:
Understanding Crime and Punishment
9.1 Whose Law and Dominion?
9.2 Cheap Grace, Costly Law
9.3 The Christian Mind
9.4 Reformers, Puritans and Penology
9.5 Foundations of Biblical Penology
9.6 Guidelines for Interpreting Specifics in the Law
Principle and Practice
9.7 Law as a Value-processing System
9.8 Controversial Areas of Biblical Penology: Offenses Against the family
9.9 Homosexuality and the Family
9.10 Abandoning the Law: The Failure of Modern Penology
9.11 Conclusions and Clarifications
9.11.1 Limits of Law
9.11.2 The End of Biblical Law
Part II The Reign of God
Chapter 10 The Highway to Zion: Christ and Culture
10.1 Christianity versus the Imperial Cult
10.2 What is Culture?
10.3 Culture as prejudice
10.4 Cult and Culture
10.5 Culture and the Fall
10.6 Cultural Cowardice
10.7 An Absent Christ – an Abandoned Culture
10.8 The Culture of Christ
Chapter 11 Fill the Earth and Subdue it: Faith, Family and Revolution
11.1 The Social Revolution
11.2 The Sexual Revolution
11.3 The Family and the Basic Powers in Society
Chapter 12 Let My Children Go: The Christian Mandate to Educate
12.1 Education: A Christian Heritage and Calling
12.2 Education: A Religious Function
12.3 The Myth of Neutrality: the Purpose of Education
12.4 The Battle for the Mind and the Future
12.5 The Myth of Neutrality: the Content of Education
12.6 The Curriculum of Christ
Chapter 13 Defence and Confirmation of the Gospel: The Reign of God and Apologetics for the Twenty-First Century
13.1 What is Apologetics?
13.2 Van Til: the Thomas Aquinas of Protestantism
13.3 Approaches to Apologetics
13.4 The Story of Postmodernity
13.5 Theological and Philosophical Implications for Apologetics
13.6 Responding to the post of Modernity
13.7 Methodological Implications
Chapter 14 Men of Athens: Evangelism in Pluralistic Age
14.1 Should we Evangelize?
14.2 Interfaith Thinking
14.3 The Challenge of Pluralism
14.4 The Challenge of Inclusivism
14.5 The Response of Exclusivism
14.6 The Missional Approaches of Peter and Paul: The Audience
14.6.1 The Audience
14.6.2 The Messenger
14.7 Message and Method: Paul in Athens
14.8 Peter and Cornelius
Chapter 15 I will Build My Church: The Missio Ecclesiae
15.1 The Mission of the Church
15.2 The New Puritanism and the Church
15.3 No Compromise
15.4 Idolatry – The Root of Resistance
15.5 Divine Jealousy
15.6 The Nature of Idolatry
15.7 Going the Way of Balaam
15.8 The Hopeless World
15.9 The Covenant of Hope
Appendix 1
Rushdoony, Racism and the Holocaust
Appendix 2
Billy Graham, Evangelism and the Evangelical Tradition:
A Reformed Analysis
Notes
Bibliography
Анотація:
This is a work of practical theology and cultural philosophy, demonstrating the religious nature of all human actions and institutions. In The Mission of God, Joe Boot examines the historic biblical perspective on everyday cultural matters, demonstrating the abiding validity and authority of the whole word of God for every area of life.
He writes in the introduction, "What is the calling of God's covenant people in history? What is the kingdom of God and how does it manifest itself? What does the reign of God look like and how are we to discern God working? What is the relationship between faith and public morality and policy? What should be the relationship between church and state? Is religious pluralism a biblically compatible and workable theology of state? Does the church have a future in history? Are Christians called to transform cultures? In short, what is the mission of God and what part do we have to play? These questions have become increasingly pertinent for the church today, especially in the Western world, because it is widely recognized that Western civilization is facing an epochal turning point."
The Mission of God is an exhortation to rediscover and return to a robust biblical faith in the lordship of Christ for every area of life.