This collection of essays addresses aspects of Christian identity formation as God's holy people in a global context in the midst of various challenges. The contributors offer interdisciplinary explorations on what it means to live as God's holy people in different settings and consider challenging questions from biblical, historical, theological, missiological, and pastoral perspectives.

Svetlana Khobnya is senior lecturer in biblical studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, UK. She is the author of The Father Who Redeems and the Son Who Obeys: Consideration of Paul's Teaching in Romans (2013) and multiple articles and essays in various journals and collections of essays. She is translator and co-editor, with John F. Healey, of The Palmyrene Tax Tariff by I. S. Shifman (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement, 2014).
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Arseny Ermakov is senior lecturer in biblical studies at Eva Burrows College within the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-author, with Robert S. Snow, of The Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition (2019) and co-editor, with Andrew Brower Latz, of Purity: Essays in Bible and Theology (2014).
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Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, UK. She has chapters in several books, most recently in The Pastor as Theological Steward (2022), edited by Al Truesdale; A Prophet Among Us: The Legacy of Tom Nees (2022), edited by Al Truesdale, and The Present Preacher: Discerning God in the Now, edited by Liz Shercliffe and Matthew Allen (2021).
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Peter Rae is dean and vice principal at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, UK. He is the author of "New Direction: Privatisation and Higher Education" in Canadian Journal for Higher Education (1992) and "Nazarene Higher Education: A European Voice" in Telos (2012).
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MiJa Wi is lecturer in biblical studies and global mission and director of Bridging Worlds: Centre for Asian Christianities at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, UK. She is the author of The Path to Salvation in Luke's Gospel: What Must We Do? (2019, 2021) and "Asian Hermeneutics" in Global Wesleyan Encyclopedia of Biblical Theology (2020).