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God Draws Near Rethinking the Biblical Theology of Mission Collin Cornell Challenging the prevailing paradigm for biblical theology of mission, this book offers a new model that centers on God’s purpose to draw near to humanity in fellowship. “Cornell trains his fecund brain, ravenous reading habits, and viva - cious pen to a biblical theology of mission. He upsets—rightly, in my view—the heretofore dominant approach that has centered on repair, which has some real merits but also unavoidable and rather profound de merits. I say ‘heretofore’ because in this book Cornell dismantles the repair approach definitively, offering us something far better in its place.” — Brent A. Strawn, Duke University “Cornell eloquently and prudently warns us of the dangers of the - ologies of mission that exclusively focus on the dramatic-narrative nature of the canonical framework of Scripture. Cornell rightly highlights and insists that God’s ultimate desire is restored in inti - mate communion with his people. A welcome contribution to the ongoing discipline of missional hermeneutics.” —Christopher J. H. Wright, Langham Partnership “With great clarity Cornell moves the reader beyond a focus on the diachronic narrative of God’s mission of repairing the world and toward a multilayered interpretation of Scripture and a mission of communion.” —Kirsteen Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary “In this well-written and well-argued book, Cornell returns to a classic question of medieval theology: Is there a good to the incar - nation greater than that of repairing the damage of original sin? In the Song of Songs and the story of the building of the tabernacle Cornell finds his answer: the desire of God to draw the human per - son near to himself.” —Gary A. Anderson, University of Notre Dame “A wonderful piece of critical and constructive theology that can positively transform how we understand what the Bible is all about. An impressively learned and original work.” —Kendall Soulen, Emory University “Cornell’s bold proposal offers a fresh way to support the church’s witness to a new missional era. Theologians, missiologists, and practitioners should sit with Cornell’s argument.” —Edwin Chr. van Driel, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
NOVEMBER 2025 • 224 pages • $26.99 • paper • 9781540968968
Collin Cornell (PhD, Emory University) is assistant professor of Bible and mission at Fuller Theological Seminary, Houston. He is the author of two books on divine aggression and the editor of Divine Doppelgängers and The Incomparable God by Brent Strawn. He also cotranslated K. H. Miskotte’s Biblical ABCs .
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