Lesslie Newbigin

Biography

Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) served as a missionary in India, where Newbigin was a founding bishop of the Church in South India and later Bishop in Madras. Newbigin also held leadership roles with the International Missionary Council and served as associate general secretary of the World Council of Churches, and as Moderator of the United Reformed Church in the UK. Newbigin received honorary doctorates from the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. Newbigin's books include A Faith for this One World, The Reunion of the Church, Revised Edition, and Honest Religion for Secular Man.

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Enlightenment & Alienation

Theology

“Absorbing and illuminating. . . . [This book] deals in lucid fashion with the most fundamental issues which haunt us as human beings who are the heirs. . . of that movement which those who first participated in it called 'The Enlightenment'. . . . Colin Gunton gives us grounds for. . . the confidence that there can be enlightenment without the alienation and the skepticism which so easily tumbles into nihilism and despair. For this I am grateful.”

How Does America Hear the Gospel?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“An illuminating survey of the interaction between the gospel and American society through the centuries and an assessment of their present relations.”