The Gospel and pluralism today : Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st century

This collection of essays explores the legacy of Lesslie Newbigin's classic work, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, critically analyzing the nature of Western pluralism and discussing the influence of Newbigin's work on the field of missiology. By looking backward, this volume advances a vision... Full description

Main Author: Sunquist, Scott W.
Published: Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the legacy of Newbigin for mission to the West / Scott W. Sunquist
  • Newbigin in his time / Wilbert R. Shenk
  • Newbigin's theology of mission and culture after twenty-five years : attending to the "subject" of mission / William R. Burrows
  • Community and witness in transition : Newbigin's missional ecclesiology between modernity and postmodernity / Veli-Matti Ka¨rkka¨inen and Michael Karim
  • Holistic theological method and theological epistemology : performing Newbigin's plurality of sources in the pluralist context / Steven B. Sherman
  • Honoring true otherness in a still-antipluralist culture / Esther L. Meek
  • Pluralism, secularism and Pentecost : Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a new century / Amos Yong
  • Evangelism in a pluralist society : the Newbigin vision / Carrie Boren Headington
  • What does it mean for a congregation to be a hermeneutic? / John G. Flett
  • Asian perspectives on twenty-first-century pluralism / Allen Yeh.