{"id":6194,"date":"2022-07-01T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgewalterssleyon.com\/?page_id=6194"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:04:13","slug":"missions-centrifugal-or-centripetal-gordon-l-snider-the-use-of-the-old-testament-in-a-wesleyan-theology-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/georgewalterssleyon.com\/?page_id=6194","title":{"rendered":"Missions: Centrifugal or Centripetal? Gordon L. Snider, The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"profile--work_thumbnail hidden-xs\"><a class=\"js-work-strip-work-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/48372119\/Book_Review_Missions_Centrifugal_or_Centripetal_Gordon_L_Snider_The_Use_of_the_Old_Testament_in_a_Wesleyan_Theology_of_Mission\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"work-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/imgv2-1-f.scribdassets.com\/img\/document\/506325677\/111x142\/38815dc5a8\/1620171730?v=1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-workCard wp-workCard_itemContainer\">\n<div class=\"wp-workCard_item wp-workCard--title\"><a class=\"js-work-strip-work-link text-gray-darker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/48372119\/Book_Review_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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"text_layer\">\n<div class=\"ie_fix\">\n<div class=\"ff4\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">Book Review: Missions: Centrifugal or <\/span><span class=\"a\">Centripetal? Gordon L. Snider, <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">The Use of <\/span><span class=\"a\">the Old T<span class=\"l\">estament in a W<span class=\"l10\">esleyan Theology of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0Mission<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff4\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\"><a class=\"ll\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com.ezproxy.is.ed.ac.uk\/author\/Walters-Sleyon%2C+George\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">George Walters-Sleyon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">First Published <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">October 3, 2017 Book Review <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">The Expository Times <\/span><span class=\"a\">2017, Vol. 129(1) 45 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff3\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">50 <\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a9 The Author(s) 2017 <\/span><span class=\"a\">Reprints and permissions: <\/span><span class=\"a\">sagepub.co.uk\/journalsPermissions.nav <\/span><span class=\"a\">DOI: 10.1177\/0014524617710358 <\/span><span class=\"a\">\u00a0journals.sagepub.com<span class=\"l6\">\/home\/ext <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff0\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">Snider Gordon L. , The Use of the Old Testament in a Wesleyan Theology of Mission (Cambridge: <\/span><span class=\"a\">James Clarke and Co, 2016. \u00a322.50 pp. ix + 310. ISBN: 978-0-227-17602-3). <\/span><span class=\"a\">Snider provides a commendable trajectory of the use of Old Testament texts by influential <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff3\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Wesleyans and their particular missiological interpretations. Is there an Old Testament \u2018Gr\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">eat <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">Commission\u2019 mandate (p. 197)? Fundamental to their interpretations of Old Testament texts was <\/span><span class=\"a\">the influence of the \u2018Wesleyan distinctives\u2019 (p. 194), namely Christian perfection, prevenient <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff5\"><span class=\"a\" style=\"color: #000000;\">grace, the image of God and salvation as healing (p. 4). Adherence to these distinctives, Snider <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ff3\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"a\">explains, informed Wesleyan theology of mission and undergirded their perspective that the \u2018Old <\/span><span class=\"a\">Testament God was a missionary God\u2019 (p. 193).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: 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. 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