Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Ecumenical movement
ISBN: 9780802829825

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." -- Lamin Sanneh in "The Christian Century""When my students finally realize what Newbigin is saying, they panic. When they realize that even the most faithful circles they know have been seduced by sectarianism, solipsism, Gnosticism, and nihilism, they worry that apostasy is unavoidable. . . . Yet, despite the surrounding darkness, Newbigin never loses hope, because he stays focused on the light that has come." -- Telford Work in "Pro Ecclesia""Newbigin is most impressive, indeed awesome, when defending the universality of the Christian gospel and exposing the muddleheadedness and loss of nerve that have turned many Western churches into domestic chaplaincies rather than launching pads for cross-cultural mission at home and abroad." -- Vinoth Ramachandra in "Themelios""Seeing both liberal and fundamentalist Christians imprisoned in the epistemological presuppositions of the Enlightenment, Lesslie Newbigin offers them liberation bypointing to the fiduciary character of all human knowledge. The best form of apologetics, he contends, is the preaching of the particular yet universal gospel." -- Geoffrey Wainwright on Newbigin's "Proper Confidence"

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1989-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802804266

INSPIRATIONAL

Foolishness to the Greeks

Foolishness to the Greeks
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 1988-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467419087

How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.

The Church and Its Vocation

The Church and Its Vocation
Author: Michael W. Goheen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493415840

Lesslie Newbigin, one of the twentieth century's most important church leaders, offered insights on the church in a pluralistic world that are arguably more relevant now than when first written. This volume presents his ecclesiology to a new generation. Michael Goheen clearly articulates Newbigin's missionary understanding of the church and places it in the context of Newbigin's core theological convictions. Suitable for students as well as church leaders, this book offers readers a better understanding of the mission of the church in the world today. Foreword by N. T. Wright.

Sin and Salvation

Sin and Salvation
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2009-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725225522

Proper Confidence

Proper Confidence
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 113
Release: 1995-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467420832

Looking to end the divisive conflict that has raged between Christians who attack each other either as "liberals" or as "fundamentalists," Newbigin here gives a historical account of the roots of this conflict in order to begin laying the foundation for a middle ground that will benefit the Christian faith as a whole. What results is a perspective that allows Christians to confidently affirm the gospel as public truth in our pluralistic world.

The Open Secret

The Open Secret
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1995-08-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802808298

Fresh insights on the missionary task in other cultures and points to consider for those seeking to proclaim the lordship of Christ in our secularized society.

The Light Has Come

The Light Has Come
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1982
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802818959

Respected missiologist Lesslie Newbigin's commentary on John is unique both in its power to prepare pastors and teachers to declare the Word of God to others and in its ability to communicate John's message to contemporary readers.

Signs Amid the Rubble

Signs Amid the Rubble
Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802809896

The late Lesslie Newbigin was widely regarded as one of this generation's most significant voices on Christianity in relation to modern society. Now that he is gone, there is a call for his unpublished writings to be made available. To that end "Signs amid the Rubble" gathers some of Newbigin's finest statements on issues of continuing relevance. The first set of chapters consists of the 1941 Bangalore Lectures, in which Newbigin speaks powerfully of the kingdom of God in relation to the modern - severely deficient - idea of "progress." The second group of writings, the Henry Martyn Lectures of 1986, deals mainly with the importance of Christian mission. In the last piece, his address to the World Council of Churches conference on mission and evangelism in Brazil in 1996 - which editor Geoffrey Wainwright calls his "swan song on the ecumenical stage" - Newbigin wonders aloud how future generations will judge today's practice of abortion.