Michael Goheen’s “A Light to the Nations”

Abstract

Michael Goheen currently serves as Professor of Missiology as Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has authored and co-authored several books on missiology, theology, ecclesiology, and worldview. A Light to the Nations is an attempt to integrate a theology of mission with a biblical ecclesiology. In this book, Goheen skillfully constructs a missional ecclesiology. However, this work differs from others in the same category based on his “sustained biblical-theological and exegetical work (ix).” With the storyline of Scripture as his guide, Goheen traces the missional thrust inherit in God’s people from the formation of Israel to contemporary local churches. His targeted audience is theological students and church leaders, but the book is both accessible and applicable to lay leaders in the church.