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YOUR GODS
IN IDOLATROUS TIMES
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2020 by Christopher J. H. Wright
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.
Content in part one is adapted from chapter five of Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bibles Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006). Used with permission.
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T HIS BOOK IS A COMBINATION of two sources. Part one is a slightly edited and adapted version of The Living God Confronts Idolatry, from my The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bibles Grand Narrative. The topic of idolatry is so important that this material is present in a new form and publication. It serves as the foundation for part two.
The origin of the remaining chapters in part two lies in an invitation I received to deliver a public lecture in St. Michaels Church, Charleston, South Carolina, on January 11, 2017. This was during a week I spent sharing the Bible teaching at the Anglican Leadership Institute in Charleston with a group of church leaders from other countries at the invitation of Rev. Dr. Peter Moore. The title for my lecture, proposed by Dr. Moore, was Following Jesus in an Age of Political Turbulence. That it was a lecture also accounts for the slight shift to a more applied style in part two, reflecting the nature of the occasion on which it was delivered.
The reason for the invitation and the lecture title was that many of us were (and still are) staggering with a mixture of baffled incomprehension and alarm at the two major events in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2016: the referendum over the United Kingdoms membership in the European Union, which ended in a narrow victory for Brexit, in June; and the election of Donald Trump to the office of president of the United States in November. What is going on in the world that such things happenthings that many people not so long ago would have thought to be almost unimaginable? Of course, things have moved on a lot since those two events of 2016, and we shall consider wider examples of national idolatry. But they were the trigger for the reflections in part two. This book was written, of course, before the onset and devastating spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, though the final stages of its editing have happened while that scourge is still afflicting the world. To the extent that this global crisis is at least in part the outcome of human folly and the human arrogance and idolatry that accompany and exacerbate such folly, the theme of the book seems even more sharply pertinent.
I am grateful to Glenn Shrom for repeatedly urging me to consider publishing the chapter on idolatry in The Mission of God as a separate book; also to InterVarsity Press (USA) and Inter-Varsity Press (UK) for permission to republish it in this form; to Anna Gissing for most helpful collaboration in the editorial challenge of blending the various materials together; and to Pieter Kwant, my agent, for encouraging the publication of the lecture and other materials in part two. I am well aware that there are other much more profound and insightful analyses of contemporary idolatries in our Western culture. Some of these are listed in the footnotes in part one. The most recent such analysis, with a solidly biblical foundation and missional challenge, sets the radical claims of biblical monotheism in stark contrast to the idolatries of our culture. It is provided by Bruce Ashford and Heath Thomas in The Gospel of Our King: Bible, Worldview, and the Mission of Every Christian (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019).
M ONOTHEISM AND MISSION. Two vast words that you will not actually find in the Bible, yet they embrace massive biblical teaching: that there is only one true living God, the God revealed as Yahweh in the Old Testament and incarnated in Jesus of Nazareth in the New; and that this God revealed in the Bible is on mission, that is to say, he is working out his own sovereign plan and purpose for the whole creation through the whole of human history and calls his whole redeemed people to participate with him in that mission.
Each of these words, monotheism and mission, is inseparably tied to the other.
Biblical monotheism is necessarily missional. That is because the one true living God of the biblical revelation wills to be known and worshiped throughout his whole creation and by all the nations of humanity. That divine will to be known constitutes and generates the mission of God, through biblical history and to the end of human history.
And biblical mission is necessarily monotheistic. That is because Gods people are commissioned to call people of all nations to the worship of this one living Creator and Redeemer God, and to join all creation in giving this one God the praise and glory that is due to him alone.
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