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Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve/Paul and the Early Church  [Book] Eckhard J. Schnabel Our price: £59.99 Product details Produced by: Apollos Binding: Hardback ISBN: 9781844749904 Product Dimensions: 160 x 230 x 50 mm

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Ground-breaking, encyclopaedic study of the first-century Christian missionary expansion, in two volumes.  Here is a vast and detailed panorama of the missionary impulse, activity and strategy of the early church.

In this monumental study, Eckhard Schnabel gives us both a unified and detailed picture of the rise and growth of early Christian mission. He begins with a search for a missionary impulse in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism. He then weighs the evidence for a mission of Jesus to Gentiles. But the centre of focus is the apostolic missionary activity as it is related in Acts, Paul’s letters and the rest of the New Testament.

Here is a study that seeks to describe all the evidence relevant to the missionary strategy and tactics of the early church, to explain the theological dimensions of the early Christian mission, and to integrate the numerous studies published in the last decades into a synthetic overall picture. Schnabel’s detailed and immensely informed analysis will reward careful reading and reflection, and form a solid basis for a new understanding of the rise of Christianity and the nature of Christian mission – both then and now.

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