Lesslie Newbigin
A Theological Life
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2000
474 pages
978-0-19-535636-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: A Man in Christ
- The Career
- The Character
- The Reader and the Writer
- The Theological Life
- 1 The Confident Believer
- Grasped by Christ
- Three Student Papers
- Ransomed, Healed, Restored, Forgiven
- Proper Confidence
- A Contemporary Faith
- 2 The Direct Evangelist
- Lifelong Practices
- The Gospel for Indian Students
- The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever
- Reconverting the West
- Locality and Language
- 3 The Ecumenical Advocate
- The Movement for Mission and Unity
- The Church of South India
- The Reunion of the Church
- The Household of God
- The Unity We Seek''
- A Fellowship of Local Churches Truly United
- The Abortive Covenant of the English Churches
- The International Anglican-Reformed Dialogue
- Crisis Around the World Council of Churches
- 4 The Pastoral Bishop
- Ministry in and of the Church
- The Pastor
- The Bishop
- Ministries Ordained and Lay
- Episcopacy and the Historic Episcopate
- 5 The Missionary Strategist
- The Foreign Missionary in India
- The International Missionary Council
- World Mission and Evangelism
- The Open Secret
- Mission in Late Modernity
- From Tambaram 1938 to Tambaram 1988
- 6 The Religious Interlocutor
- In India
- At Chicago and Harvard, at Yale and Cambridge
- In Birmingham
- Amid and Against Religious Pluralism
- In the Face of Islam
- 7 The Social Visionary
- Britain in the 1930s
- India from the 1940s to the 1970s
- Britain Around 1984
- A Christian Vision for Society
- 8 The Liturgical Preacher
- The South India Liturgy
- The Form of Sound Words
- The Sacraments of the Lord
- The Glory of God
- 9 The Scriptural Teacher
- The Authority of the Bible
- The Reading of the Text
- The World's Story
- The Rule of Faith
- My Nearest Approach to a Dogmatics
- The Gist of It
- 10 The Christian Apologist
- The Modern World
- The Secular Flirtation
- The Intellectual Battle
- The Ecclesiastical Witness
- Conclusion: The Man in History
- Like a Father of the Church
- Unto the Third and the Fourth Generation
- Amid the Rubble of History
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
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