Your Gospel Is Too Small
Reframing the Gospel Toward Its Cosmic Grandeur
- Theology
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
Friedrich Nietzsche believed that with the gospel, "the Christian [is] a useless, separated, resigned person, extraneous to the progress of the world." Hence, to Nietzsche the Christian message is a "virtue of the weak." This criticism emanates from the kind of a gospel we have known, accepted, and preached for centuries--a gospel that represented the Christian message out of the medieval and Reformation theologies. With the revival of biblical studies and theology in the eighteenth century and onwards, studies on the gospel shifted to more historical approaches, paving the way for a more biblical gospel that is faithful to the larger biblical narrative. Slowly we have rediscovered a different understanding of the gospel that is not limited to a personal and highly spiritualized gospel, but one that is more cosmic in its grandeur. Your Gospel Is Too Small invites readers to a whole new world open to men and women toward a vision greater than previously held--a world that is even beyond what ubermensch offers to us. This is a reframation of the gospel we thought we already knew.
Endorsements (4)
“Jason Hallig desires to make the theology and teaching of the church as accessible to the person in the pew as to the student in the academy. In this book, he unpacks some of the latest scholarship from authors such as N. T. Wright, Brian McLaren, and Scot McKnight . . . and presents it in a form that is understandable to the lay reader.”
“The gospel powerfully transforms. This book challenges readers to let this transformation begin by expanding our thinking about the gospel. Through a synthesis of biblical theology, Dr. Hallig broadens typical understandings of the gospel and calls for a deeper commitment to God’s mission for the church in this world.”
“Dr. Jason Hallig challenges us to think deeply about the big story of the Bible and our place within this story. That task makes this book worth reading and pondering, since the overall story of the Bible—as the word 'gospel' indicates—really is good news.”
“This short volume is a reflection of one with broad disciplines in human sciences, history, Bible, and theology in search for life’s meaning in the context of relationship and responsibility amid dread. Hallig presents a gospel that is more than a personal relationship with God, but one that is kingdom oriented.”
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