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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... knowledge of God 2 The death of Christ 3 Election and the people of God 4 Christ as the clue to history 5 The ecumenical vision 6 Trinitarian mission Part 2 MISSIONARY THEOLOGY IN PRACTICE vii × 1 17 29 48 54 66 81 7 Christ and the ...
... 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 society in which the missionary task is focused ...
... knowledge while he was still a theological student at Cambridge in the 1930s to some of his last work on the nature of ' public ' truth in the late 1990s . Following an ' introductory biographical sketch ' , Part One is designed around ...
Missionary Theologian : a Reader Lesslie Newbigin. Part 1 THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR MISSION 1 The knowledge of God The question ' What does Part 1: THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR MISSION.
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 |