Lesslie Newbigin

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ecumenical movement
ISBN : 0802829821

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Lesslie Newbigin by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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"

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467419086

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Foolishness to the Greeks by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802804268

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The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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Author : Michael W. Goheen
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493415847

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The Church and Its Vocation by Michael W. Goheen Pdf

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.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802808295

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The Open Secret by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467420839

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Proper Confidence by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725225527

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Sin and Salvation by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802818951

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The Light Has Come by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597529242

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Trinitarian Doctrine for Today's Mission by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

Trinitarian Doctrine for Today's Mission This stimulating little book introduces some of the issues involved in mission in the twentieth century. Newbigin discusses missions from an ecumenical perspective before considering the limits of ecumenicity and the need for truth. He considers that the present situation of the missionary movement has brought the question of the uniqueness and finality of Christ into sharp focus. This question, he argues, and the question of the relation of what God is doing in the mission of the Church and in the secular events of history will only be answered correctly in the framework of a fully and explicitly trinitarian doctrine of God. With and introduction by Eleanor Jackson.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802809898

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Signs Amid the Rubble by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

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.

Author : Geoffrey Wainwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195356366

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Lesslie Newbigin by Geoffrey Wainwright Pdf

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.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725225510

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The Finality of Christ by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

Modern man finds the concept of finality alien to his whole way of thinking. Science teaches him that human history is only a moment in the life of an infinite universe. His study of world religions calls into question the uniqueness of Christianity. Western man's uneasy conscience--due to the excesses of colonialism--makes him hesitant to press his own faith on others. By taking the issues of finality out of the classroom, Lesslie Newbigin demonstrates its importance to Christians with loyalties both to the community of the church and to the community of man. He asserts that conversion does not involve either a denial of the value of a person's previous faith or a blanket acceptance of the church's way of doing things. Bishop Newbigin examines the various Christian interpretations of finality, giving special attention to the views of Dutch theologian Hendrik Kraemer about the relationship of Christianity to world religions. The author advances the debate by showing that the way to move beyond Kraemer's position is to look for the place of the gospel in secular history. The gospel is the announcement of an event which demands that all men make a decision for or against. It is the clue to history--the history of mankind and of the individual.

Author : George R. Hunsberger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802843697

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Bearing the Witness of the Spirit by George R. Hunsberger Pdf

What are the theological implications of today's multicultural world? What does cultural plurality mean for the life and mission of the church? George Hunsberger finds the answers to these and other questions in the missionary theology of Lesslie Newbigin which he brings into clear view in Bearing the Witness of the Spirit.n

Author : Michael W. Goheen
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441214461

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A Light to the Nations by Michael W. Goheen Pdf

There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. Michael Goheen, a dynamic speaker and the coauthor of two popular texts on the biblical narrative, unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story. Goheen shows that the church's identity can be understood only when its role is articulated in the context of the whole biblical story--not just the New Testament, but the Old Testament as well. He also explores practical outworkings and implications, offering field-tested suggestions for contemporary churches.

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606082225

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The Household of God by Lesslie Newbigin Pdf

This book discusses the question that the author regards as central in the present ecumenical debate: the nature of the Church itself. He thus describes the plan of theÊbook: The First chapter sketches the present context of the discussion and touches on the Biblical meaning of the word Church. The next three chapters examine the three answers to the central question, which may be roughly categorizedÊ as Protestant, Catholic, Pentecostal. The last two chapters argue that the Church is only to be understood in a perspective that is at once eschatologicalÊand missionary, the perspective of the ends of the earth. Bishop Newbigin's evaluations are provacative, scholarly, and filled with profound passion and insight. He is concerned with the searching questions men today are asking: Is there in truth a family of God on earth to which I can belong, a place where all men can be truly at home? If so, where is it to be found and how is it that those who claim to be spokesmen of that holy fellowshipÊare themselves at war with one another as to the fundamentals of its nature? I think there is no more urgent theological task than to try to give plain and simple answers. This he does, drawing deeply upon biblicalÊsources.