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Lesslie Newbigin—Missionary Theologian: A Reader

Lesslie Newbigin—Missionary Theologian: A Reader Book Reviews / International Journal of Public Th eology 2 (2008) 379–394 387 Paul Weston, Lesslie Newbigin—Missionary Th eologian: A Reader (Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), pp. x + 277, £14.99, ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-2982-5 (pbk). Th e long and distinguished career of Lesslie Newbigin, the various debates and contro- versies into which he vigorously entered, the recapitulation of his time in India (even though he may have left India, India never left him), the occasionally misunderstood and sometimes lonely voice challenging the insidious and creeping secularization of the west and the uncompromising attitude with regard to the interpenetration of the gospel and culture have made him a missiologist whose work continues to inform, challenge, and interrogate those who struggle to faithfully express and practice the missiological task of the church at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although there is much in his work that exasperates those functioning within a more pluralistic framework, nevertheless the challenges that he set out, especially the questions that he raised regarding the interrelationship between gospel and culture, need to be responded to, even when, or especially when, the answers may not be what he anticipated or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Public Theology Brill

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1872-5171
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1569-7320
DOI
10.1163/156973208X316261
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Book Reviews / International Journal of Public Th eology 2 (2008) 379–394 387 Paul Weston, Lesslie Newbigin—Missionary Th eologian: A Reader (Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006), pp. x + 277, £14.99, ISBN-13: 978-0-8028-2982-5 (pbk). Th e long and distinguished career of Lesslie Newbigin, the various debates and contro- versies into which he vigorously entered, the recapitulation of his time in India (even though he may have left India, India never left him), the occasionally misunderstood and sometimes lonely voice challenging the insidious and creeping secularization of the west and the uncompromising attitude with regard to the interpenetration of the gospel and culture have made him a missiologist whose work continues to inform, challenge, and interrogate those who struggle to faithfully express and practice the missiological task of the church at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although there is much in his work that exasperates those functioning within a more pluralistic framework, nevertheless the challenges that he set out, especially the questions that he raised regarding the interrelationship between gospel and culture, need to be responded to, even when, or especially when, the answers may not be what he anticipated or

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International Journal of Public TheologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

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