A gracious and compassionate God - mission, salvation and spirituality in the book of Jonah David & Shirley Donovan and Former Director

and Former Director

and it’s this: our heroes on the mission field were lone rangers who pulled themselves up by their spiritual bootstraps to take the gospel to the lost

I have always loved the prophet Elijah

Since 2009 he has been a professor emeritus at Trinity Western University

A gracious and compassionate God - mission, salvation and spirituality in the book of Jonah David & Shirley Donovan and Former DirectorThe book of Jonah is arguably just as jarring for us as it was for the ancients. Ninevah's repentance, Jonah's estrangement from God and the book's bracing moral conclusion all pose unsettling questions for today's readers. For biblical theologians, Jonah also raises tough questions regarding mission and religious conversion. Here, Daniel Timmer embarks on a new reading of Jonah in order to secure its ongoing relevance for biblical theology. After an