From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race Volume 14 (New Studies in Biblical Theology) - Softcover

Hays, J Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830826165 ISBN 13: 9780830826162

Publisher: IVP Academic, 2003

Synopsis

"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language . . ." (Revelation 7:9). The visions in the book of Revelation give a glimpse of the people of God at the consummation of history--a multiethnic congregation gathered together in worship around God's throne. Its racial diversity is expressed in a fourfold formula that first appears in Genesis 10. The theme of race runs throughout Scripture, constantly pointing to the global and multiethnic dimensions inherent in the overarching plan of God. In response to the neglect of this theme in much evangelical biblical scholarship, J. Daniel Hays offers this thorough exegetical work in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series. As well as focusing on texts which have a general bearing on race, Hays demonstrates that black Africans from Cush (Ethiopia) play an important role in both Old and New Testament history. This careful, nuanced analysis provides a clear theological foundation for life in contemporary multiracial cultures and challenges churches to pursue racial unity in Christ. Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

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Review:

"J. Daniel Hays is able simultaneously to make us long for the new heaven and the new earth, when men and women from every tongue and tribe and people and nation will gather around the One who sits on the throne and the Lamb, and to make us blush with shame when we recognize afresh that already the church of Jesus Christ is to be an outpost in this fallen world of that consummated kingdom. This book deserves the widest circulation and the most thoughtful reading, for it corrects a fair bit of erroneous scholarship while calling Christians to reform sinful attitudes."--D. A. Carson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Deerfield, Illinois)

Hays? book is an important step in both compelling us to embrace Scripture's vision of multi-ethnic people of God as well compelling us to work for practical expressions of this vision in our own churches.--Evangelical Review of Theology, July 2007

Hays' book is an important step in both compelling us to embrace Scripture's vision of multi-ethnic people of God as well compelling us to work for practical expressions of this vision in our own churches.--Evangelical Review of Theology, July 2007

About the Author:

* Author - Chair, Department of Biblical Studies and Theology, Ouachita
Baptist University, Arkansas
* worked as a missionary in Ethiopia

About this edition

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0830826165
• ISBN 13: 9780830826162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Carson D A