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.

Geoffrey Wainwright is Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University.

Preface

v

Introduction: A Man in Christ

3

(1)

The Career

3

(13)

The Character

16

(4)

The Reader and the Writer

20

(6)

The Theological Life

26

(3)

The Confident Believer

29

(27)

Grasped by Christ

29

(3)

Three Student Papers

32

(6)

Ransomed, Healed, Restored, Forgiven

38

(11)

Proper Confidence

49

(4)

A Contemporary Faith

53

(3)

The Direct Evangelist

56

(25)

Lifelong Practices

56

(3)

The Gospel for Indian Students

59

(6)

The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever

65

(7)

Reconverting the West

72

(3)

Locality and Language

75

(6)

The Ecumenical Advocate

81

(54)

The Movement for Mission and Unity

81

(3)

``The Church of South India''

84

(2)

``The Reunion of Church''

86

(12)

``The Household of God''

98

(15)

``The Unity We Seek''

113

(4)

``A Fellowship of Local Churches Truly United''

117

(4)

The Abortive Covenant of the English Churches

121

(2)

The International Anglican-Reformed Dialogue

123

(5)

Crisis Around the World Council of Churches

128

(7)

The Pastoral Bishop

135

(27)

Ministry in and of the Church

135

(2)

The Pastor

137

(13)

The Bishop

150

(5)

Ministries Ordained and Lay

155

(3)

Episcopacy and the Historic Episcopate

158

(4)

The Missionary Strategist

162

(42)

The Foreign Missionary in India

162

(2)

The International Missionary Council

164

(9)

World Mission and Evangelism

173

(4)

The Open Secret

177

(15)

Mission in Late Modernity

192

(5)

From Tambaram 1938 to Tambaram 1988

197

(7)

The Religious Interlocutor

204

(33)

In India

204

(5)

At Chicago and Harvard, at Yale and Cambridge

209

(10)

In Birmingham

219

(3)

Amid and Against Religious Pluralism

222

(9)

In the Face of Islam

231

(6)

The Social Visionary

237

(33)

Britain in the 1930s

237

(6)

Indian from the 1940s to the 1970s

243

(13)

Britain Around 1984

256

(9)

A Christian Vision for Society

265

(5)

The Liturgical Preacher

270

(28)

The South India Luturgy

270

(9)

The Form of Sound Words

279

(7)

The Sacraments of the Lord

286

(8)

The Glory of God

294

(4)

The Scriptural Teacher

298

(37)

The Authority of the Bible

298

(5)

The Reading of the Text

303

(10)

The World's Story

313

(4)

The Rule of Faith

317

(9)

``My Nearest Approach to a Dogmatics''

326

(4)

The Gist of It

330

(5)

The Christian Apologist

335

(55)

The Modern World

335

(6)

The Secular Flirtation

341

(13)

The Intellectual Battle

354

(21)

The Ecclesiastical Witness

375

(15)

Conclusion: The Man in History

390

(21)

``Like a Father of the Church''

390

(3)

Unto the Third and the Fourth Generation

393

(15)

``Amid the Rubble of History''

408

(1)

Epilogue

409

(2)

Notes

411

(42)

Index

453

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