Benjamin H. Kim is a member of the faculty at SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary in El Dorado Hills, CA.
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Chapter 1 Re-examining Missio Dei Theology Chapter 2 The Theology of the Missio Dei Chapter 3 Karl Barth and the Mission of Revelation Chapter 4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Person of Mission Chapter 5 Reconstructing a Theology of Mission
The issues Benjamin H. Kim raises concerning mission and its relation to the missio Dei are the questions being asked by thoughtful missiologists and especially theologians of mission. . . . It carries the missio Dei argument forward to its next stage of development and to a deeper level, with consequences for how we see the church and its mission. All missiologists and theologians of mission should be interested in this book. -- W. Ross Hastings, Regent College In this systematic work, Benjamin H. Kim adds significantly to the debate on the twentieth-century origins of the problematic concept of missio Dei. By appropriating Barth's theology of revelation through Bonhoeffer's explication of "person," Kim offers a fecund mission theology of the church community being Christ's body with and for the world. -- Kirsteen Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary There is no theologian of the twentieth century who diagnosed the significance of the current context for the church as well as Bonhoeffer and in so thoroughly a theological way. Benjamin H. Kim draws out the deep theological logics of Bonhoeffer's work for a theological account of mission. His work is scholarly, ecclesial, and - most importantly - timely. -- Tom Greggs, FRSE, Marischal Chair (1616) and Head of Divinity, University of Aberdeen