Weaving the Words: The Book of Ruth as Missiologically Effective Communication
This essay explores the missiological significance of the book of Ruth from two perspectives. First, it looks at the book as a missiologically communicative text. A hermeneutic that considers the interweavings of context, content, and form shows the book of Ruth to be a story about God written in a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2002
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Missiology
Year: 2002, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-170 |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the missiological significance of the book of Ruth from two perspectives. First, it looks at the book as a missiologically communicative text. A hermeneutic that considers the interweavings of context, content, and form shows the book of Ruth to be a story about God written in a culturally appropriate way for a particular audience at a specific time in their history. The hermeneutic presented serves as a model both for exploring other texts and for communicating in culturally relevant ways. Second, this essay looks at the book of Ruth in the context of the whole Bible and demonstrates how it illuminates God's mission in the world by showing the extent of God's redemptive love, reaching to the “stranger” and then reaching out through the stranger to the nations. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-3623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missiology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/009182960203000202 |