Carl E. Braaten
"This volume of previously unpublished lectures by Lesslie Newbigin is an unexpected gift, thanks to his biographer Geoffrey Wainwright. This gift contains welcome supplements to Newbigin's early seminal writings on ecumenical theology and world missions but also includes his latest critiques of Western pluralist secular society. Newbigin's was a fresh voice of Christian prophecy in the contemporary situation. This ecumenical missionary-theologian foresaw an approaching global future that would be impacted by the fanaticism of Islamic fundamentalism and the idolatry of an unfettered free-market economy. Newbigin believed that the only hope for a free society lies in the truth and power of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
George R. Hunsberger
--Western Theological Seminary
"Here are several treats for readers of Lesslie Newbigin! Longtime readers will be fascinated by Newbigin's earliest ways of expressing themes that became dominant notes in his theological vision. The 1941 Bangalore Lectures on 'the kingdom of God and the idea of progress' were presented when Newbigin was a mere 32 years old! Here we watch his 'missionary encounter with our modern Western culture' as it unfolded sixty years ago, long before he had coined the phrase and charted the course for us late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Christians in the West.
"New readers as well as old will find in the brief space of Newbigin's three 1986 Henry Martyn Lectures a taste of the missionary theory that was one of Newbigin's greatest contributions to the church. Here he shows what is at stake in the ideological contest between, on the one hand, a Western world that sees itself as beyond the age -- or idea -- of mission and missionaries and, on the other hand, the church that knows it has been called for that purpose.
"For everyone, Newbigin's brief address on 'gospel and culture' given at the WCC world conference on mission and evangelism in Brazil in 1996, only a little more than a year before his death, will sound the closing notes of his prophetic message to us. Perhaps the address is best likened to the last of 95 theses tacked to the door of our collective cathedrals, calling us to follow in the way of Jesus' mission."
Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History
Paperback
|English
|0802809898
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9780802809896
Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History
Paperback
|English
|0802809898
|
9780802809896
Overview
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.ISBN: 0802809898
ISBN13: 9780802809896
Author: Mr. Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2003-02-01
Language: English
Edition: 0
PageCount: 136
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.34 x 9.0
inches
Weight:
7.36 ounces
Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
(1909-1998) Lesslie Newbigin was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K., in 1909. He completed his undergraduate studies in Cambridge and then served as Staff Secretary of the Student Christian Movement in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied theology at Westminster College at Cambridge and was ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, Church of Scotland in 1936. That same year Newbigin married Helen Henderson and the two of them left for India where he was to be missionary of the Church of Scotland.
In 1947 Reverend Newbigin was consecrated Bishop in the Church of South India, formed by the union of Anglican, Methodist, and Reformed churches. He also served on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the main theme of the Second Assembly. Other members of the committee included famous theologians such as Barth, Brunner, and Niebuhr.
In 1959 Newbigin was called to be General Secretary of the International Missionary Council with offices in London and New York. He was responsible for carrying through final negotiations for the merger with the World Council of Churches. In 1962 he became the first director of the Division of World Mission and Evangelism, and Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches with headquarters in Geneva.
In 1965 he was recalled by the Church of South India as Bishop in Madras and remained there until his retirement in 1974. He lived in London, England, until his death in 1998.
Geoffrey Wainwright (1939-2020) was a leading ecumenist of the Methodist Church, a liturgical expert, and a professor of theology at Duke Divinity School for almost three decades. He also served as president of the American Theological Society from 1996 to 1997.
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Overview
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.ISBN: 0802809898
ISBN13: 9780802809896
Author: Mr. Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
Format: Paperback
PublicationDate: 2003-02-01
Language: English
Edition: 0
PageCount: 136
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.34 x 9.0
inches
Weight:
7.36 ounces
Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Carl E. Braaten
"This volume of previously unpublished lectures by Lesslie Newbigin is an unexpected gift, thanks to his biographer Geoffrey Wainwright. This gift contains welcome supplements to Newbigin's early seminal writings on ecumenical theology and world missions but also includes his latest critiques of Western pluralist secular society. Newbigin's was a fresh voice of Christian prophecy in the contemporary situation. This ecumenical missionary-theologian foresaw an approaching global future that would be impacted by the fanaticism of Islamic fundamentalism and the idolatry of an unfettered free-market economy. Newbigin believed that the only hope for a free society lies in the truth and power of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
George R. Hunsberger
--Western Theological Seminary
"Here are several treats for readers of Lesslie Newbigin! Longtime readers will be fascinated by Newbigin's earliest ways of expressing themes that became dominant notes in his theological vision. The 1941 Bangalore Lectures on 'the kingdom of God and the idea of progress' were presented when Newbigin was a mere 32 years old! Here we watch his 'missionary encounter with our modern Western culture' as it unfolded sixty years ago, long before he had coined the phrase and charted the course for us late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Christians in the West.
"New readers as well as old will find in the brief space of Newbigin's three 1986 Henry Martyn Lectures a taste of the missionary theory that was one of Newbigin's greatest contributions to the church. Here he shows what is at stake in the ideological contest between, on the one hand, a Western world that sees itself as beyond the age -- or idea -- of mission and missionaries and, on the other hand, the church that knows it has been called for that purpose.
"For everyone, Newbigin's brief address on 'gospel and culture' given at the WCC world conference on mission and evangelism in Brazil in 1996, only a little more than a year before his death, will sound the closing notes of his prophetic message to us. Perhaps the address is best likened to the last of 95 theses tacked to the door of our collective cathedrals, calling us to follow in the way of Jesus' mission."
"This volume of previously unpublished lectures by Lesslie Newbigin is an unexpected gift, thanks to his biographer Geoffrey Wainwright. This gift contains welcome supplements to Newbigin's early seminal writings on ecumenical theology and world missions but also includes his latest critiques of Western pluralist secular society. Newbigin's was a fresh voice of Christian prophecy in the contemporary situation. This ecumenical missionary-theologian foresaw an approaching global future that would be impacted by the fanaticism of Islamic fundamentalism and the idolatry of an unfettered free-market economy. Newbigin believed that the only hope for a free society lies in the truth and power of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
George R. Hunsberger
--Western Theological Seminary
"Here are several treats for readers of Lesslie Newbigin! Longtime readers will be fascinated by Newbigin's earliest ways of expressing themes that became dominant notes in his theological vision. The 1941 Bangalore Lectures on 'the kingdom of God and the idea of progress' were presented when Newbigin was a mere 32 years old! Here we watch his 'missionary encounter with our modern Western culture' as it unfolded sixty years ago, long before he had coined the phrase and charted the course for us late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Christians in the West.
"New readers as well as old will find in the brief space of Newbigin's three 1986 Henry Martyn Lectures a taste of the missionary theory that was one of Newbigin's greatest contributions to the church. Here he shows what is at stake in the ideological contest between, on the one hand, a Western world that sees itself as beyond the age -- or idea -- of mission and missionaries and, on the other hand, the church that knows it has been called for that purpose.
"For everyone, Newbigin's brief address on 'gospel and culture' given at the WCC world conference on mission and evangelism in Brazil in 1996, only a little more than a year before his death, will sound the closing notes of his prophetic message to us. Perhaps the address is best likened to the last of 95 theses tacked to the door of our collective cathedrals, calling us to follow in the way of Jesus' mission."
About the Author
(1909-1998) Lesslie Newbigin was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K., in 1909. He completed his undergraduate studies in Cambridge and then served as Staff Secretary of the Student Christian Movement in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied theology at Westminster College at Cambridge and was ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh, Church of Scotland in 1936. That same year Newbigin married Helen Henderson and the two of them left for India where he was to be missionary of the Church of Scotland.
In 1947 Reverend Newbigin was consecrated Bishop in the Church of South India, formed by the union of Anglican, Methodist, and Reformed churches. He also served on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the main theme of the Second Assembly. Other members of the committee included famous theologians such as Barth, Brunner, and Niebuhr.
In 1959 Newbigin was called to be General Secretary of the International Missionary Council with offices in London and New York. He was responsible for carrying through final negotiations for the merger with the World Council of Churches. In 1962 he became the first director of the Division of World Mission and Evangelism, and Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches with headquarters in Geneva.
In 1965 he was recalled by the Church of South India as Bishop in Madras and remained there until his retirement in 1974. He lived in London, England, until his death in 1998.
Geoffrey Wainwright (1939-2020) was a leading ecumenist of the Methodist Church, a liturgical expert, and a professor of theology at Duke Divinity School for almost three decades. He also served as president of the American Theological Society from 1996 to 1997.
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