is a former minister of Eden Chapel, Cambridge, spent many years in service in mission in the rainforests of eastern Nigeria, and has also been Co-Director of the Whitefield Research Institute, Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at the International Christian College, Glasgow. He is currently Honorary Lecturer in the School of Divinity, Philosophy and History at the University of Aberdeen. He has written eight other books including Mission After Christendom.
‘David Smith takes up N. T. Wright’s advice that we should read the
New Testament “with first-century eyes and with twenty-first
century questions”. So he engages in what he calls “deep listening”
to the message of Jesus and the New Testament writers. This means
attending to the context in which and to which they spoke. Their
Gospel was not disconnected from the political, economic, social
and cultural dynamics of their world. It spoke into those dynamics,
often quite precisely and pointedly. A penetrating Christian
critique of economic globalisation … David’s book could not be more
relevant.’
*Richard Bauckham*
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