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1 online resource (966 pages) |
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Cover page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Contents; Introduction; 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." |
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"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 137 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 |
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6: The Religious InterlocutorIn 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 |
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10: The Christian ApologistThe Modern World; The Secular Flirtation; The Intellectual Battle; The Ecclesiastical Witness; Conclusion; "Like a Father of the Church"; Unto the Third and the Fourth Generation; "Amid the Rubble of History"; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 Newbiginarchives, Geoffrey Wainwright crafts a rich and varied portrait of this outstanding witness to the Gospel |
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Print version record |
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Newbigin, Lesslie
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| SUBJECT |
Newbigin, Lesslie fast |
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Church of South India -- Bishops -- Biography
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Church of South India fast |
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Ecumenical movement -- Biography
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Bishops
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Ecumenical movement
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195356366 |
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0195356365 |
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