Missions: Centrifugal or Centripetal? Gordon L. Snider, The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission

Book Review: Missions: Centrifugal or Centripetal? Gordon L. Snider,
The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of  Mission
 
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October 3, 2017 Book Review
The Expository Times 2017, Vol. 129(1) 45
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The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission
Snider Gordon L. , The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission (Cambridge: James Clarke and Co, 2016. £22.50 pp. ix + 310. ISBN: 978-0-227-17602-3). Snider provides a commendable trajectory of the use of Old Testament texts by influential
Wesleyans and their particular missiological interpretations. Is there an Old Testament ‘Gr 
eat
Commission’ mandate (p. 197)? Fundamental to their interpretations of Old Testament texts was the influence of the ‘Wesleyan distinctives’ (p. 194), namely Christian perfection, prevenient
grace, the image of God and salvation as healing (p. 4). Adherence to these distinctives, Snider
explains, informed Wesleyan theology of mission and undergirded their perspective that the ‘Old Testament God was a missionary God’ (p. 193).