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    Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
    Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
    Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture
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    Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

    Written by Lesslie Newbigin

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateOct 1, 2005
    ISBN9781596442979
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    Lesslie Newbigin

    (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.

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    • 5/5
      Not an easy read (or listen) by any means but well worth the effort.
    • 4/5
      The content was brilliant and challenging. Newbigin is a gift to the modern church. The recording itself could be improved due to several gaps in the audio.
    • 3/5
      Too dense to listen to- better to read.
    • 2/5
      Newbigin hits the question of what is required for an authentic missionary encounter between Jesus' gospel and Western culture--in its secular, pagan, post-christian, atheistic, and hardened expressions. I found I agree with much of what he argues, but at many points felt like he was saying in the mid-eighties things that Francis Schaeffer had said 20 years earlier.

      He ends the book with seven recommendations for the church to act upon if we hope to proclaim the good news in a way that its heard by our culture in the West.

      Excellent, engaging book.