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A crucial responsibility for Christian interpreters of Scripture, says Richard Bauckham, is to understand our contemporary context and to explore the Bibles relevance to it in ways that reflect serious critical engagement with that context. In this book Bauckham models how this task can be carried out.
Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us to greater engagement with critical issues in todays world, including globalization, environmental degradation, and widespread poverty. He works to bring biblical texts to bear on these contemporary realities through the Bibles metanarrative of God and the world, according to which Gods purpose takes effect in the blessing and salvation and fulfillment of the world as his cherished creation.
Bauckham calls for our reading of Scripture to lead us to greater engagement with critical issues in todays world, including globalization, environmental degradation, and widespread poverty. He works to bring biblical texts to bear on these contemporary realities through the Bibles metanarrative of God and the world, according to which Gods purpose takes effect in the blessing and salvation and fulfillment of the world as his cherished creation.
