Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian : a ReaderWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006 - 277 pages Monumental figure in the twentieth-century worldwide church. Internationally esteemed British pastor and missionary theologian. Ecumenical statesman and prolific writer. Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was all of these and more. This reader fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive introduction to Newbigin and his legacy. Opening with a short biography of Newbigin and a discussion of his major theological and missiological themes, the volume sets selected readings in context with brief introductions and offers suggestions for further reading from Newbigin's corpus. Praise for Lesslie Newbigin and his writings: "Newbigin has made a bold and major step forward in the debate on Christianity, pluralism, and Western self-understanding." |
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... India . I. Title : Missionary theologian . II . Weston , Paul , 1957- . III . Title . BV2063.N4175 266 - dc22 2006 2006006708 Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible , copyright © 1946 , 1952 and 1971 by ...
... India were combined with an extensive and personal knowledge of the worldwide Church to produce missionary theology that is deeply attentive to the inter- play of mission and culture . Always sensitive to the needs and questions of the ...
... India ( formed 1947 ) Churches Together in Britain and Ireland Commission on World Mission and Evangelism ( formed 1961 ) International Missionary Council ( formed 1921 ; became CWME of WCC in 1961 ) Student Christian Movement ( founded ...
... India , where Helen's parents had been missionaries . Accordingly , they offered themselves to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland , and Newbigin applied to train for ordination at Westminster College , Cambridge ...
... India nearly four weeks later , Lesslie having spent much of the voyage finishing his first book , an SCM study guide entitled Christian Freedom in the Modern World . 13 Then , on arrival in India , the Newbigins imme- diately found ...
Contents
The knowledge of God | 17 |
The death of Christ | 29 |
Election and the people of God | 48 |
Christ as the due to history | 54 |
The ecumenical vision | 66 |
Trinitarian mission | 81 |
MISSIONARY THEOLOGY IN PRACTICE | 93 |
Christ and the cultures | 95 |
The gospel and world religions | 158 |
The missionary crisis in the West | 185 |
102 Profile of a culture | 197 |
103 Responding to the challenge | 207 |
The gospel and public life | 218 |
112 The gospel as public truth | 244 |
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Lesslie Newbigin, Missionary Theologian: A Reader James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (évêque.),Lesslie Newbigin No preview available - 2006 |