Lesslie Newbigin

by Newbigin, Lesslie

• ISBN13: 9780802829825
• ISBN10: 0802829821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul Weston is tutor in homiletics and mission studies at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and has extensively researched the thought of Lesslie Newbigin

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction: A biographical sketch	p. 1
Theological Foundations for Mission
The knowledge of God	p. 17
The death of Christ	p. 29
Election and the people of God	p. 48
Christ as the clue to history	p. 54
The ecumenical vision	p. 66
Trinitarian mission	p. 81
Missionary Theology in Practice
Christ and the cultures	p. 95
The nature and calling of the Church	p. 114
The nature of the Church	p. 114
The calling of the Church	p. 142
The gospel and world religions	p. 158
The missionary crisis in the West	p. 185
Background to the crisis	p. 185
Profile of a culture	p. 197
Responding to the challenge	p. 207
The gospel and public life	p. 218
Proclamation and persuasion	p. 218
The gospel as public truth	p. 244
Bibliography	p. 265
Biblical index	p. 271
General index	p. 272
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