Lesslie Newbigin: A Theological LifeOxford University Press, 19. okt 2000 - 480 pages This book offers an intellectual and spiritual biography of Lesslie Newbigin, a figure of patristic proportions in the twentieth-century history of the Church. Drawing on thirty-five years of personal and literary acquaintance with his subject and on a thorough examination of the Newbigin archives, Geoffrey Wainwright crafts a rich and varied portrait of this outstanding witness to the Gospel. |
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... politics, took part in family outings to moors and fells and beach, and he satisfied the children's natural curiosity on all manner of subjects, as well as teaching Lesslie woodworking and model making. After local kindergarten and ...
... politics, took part in family outings to moors and fells and beach, and he satisfied the children's natural curiosity on all manner of subjects, as well as teaching Lesslie woodworking and model making. After local kindergarten and ...
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... politics, and the religions. On one occasion he offered a particularly powerful and profound meditation on the Seven Words from the Cross. Lesslie spent Christmas 1997 in the hospital with “an unexpected heart problem,” as he put it in ...
... politics, and the religions. On one occasion he offered a particularly powerful and profound meditation on the Seven Words from the Cross. Lesslie spent Christmas 1997 in the hospital with “an unexpected heart problem,” as he put it in ...
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... political military power. To me, the kind of mission the Western Church represented was the source of disunity and ... politics were too radical) and for membership in the Communist Party (because he was not prepared to refrain from ...
... political military power. To me, the kind of mission the Western Church represented was the source of disunity and ... politics were too radical) and for membership in the Communist Party (because he was not prepared to refrain from ...
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... politics, culture, and the inter-faith dialogue.” Thomas eventually became director of the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society in Bangalore (from 1962) and chairman of the central committee of the World Council of ...
... politics, culture, and the inter-faith dialogue.” Thomas eventually became director of the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society in Bangalore (from 1962) and chairman of the central committee of the World Council of ...
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... politics, and Reinhold Niebuhr's Gifford Lectures on The Nature and Destiny of Man, the first part of which he heard in Edinburgh in the spring of 1939, “brought together and consolidated the kind of thinking with which I had been ...
... politics, and Reinhold Niebuhr's Gifford Lectures on The Nature and Destiny of Man, the first part of which he heard in Edinburgh in the spring of 1939, “brought together and consolidated the kind of thinking with which I had been ...
Contents
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2 The Direct Evangelist | 56 |
3 The Ecumenical Advocate | 81 |
4 The Pastoral Bishop | 135 |
5 The Missionary Strategist | 162 |
6 The Religious Interlocutor | 204 |
7 The Social Visionary | 237 |
8 The Liturgical Preacher | 270 |
9 The Scriptural Teacher | 298 |
10 The Christian Apologist | 335 |
The Man in History | 390 |
Notes | 411 |
Index | 453 |
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