TY - BOOK AU - Newbigin,Lesslie AU - Weston,Paul TI - Lesslie Newbigin: missionary theologian : a reader SN - 9780802829825 AV - BV2063.N534.L477 2006 PY - 2006///.] CY - Grand Rapids, Mich. PB - W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Company KW - Newbigin, Lesslie. KW - Church of South India KW - Missions KW - Theory KW - Ecumenical movement KW - History KW - fast N1 - 1 (pages 265-270) and indexes; Theological foundations for mission. The knowledge of God ; The death of Christ ; Election and the people of God ; Christ as the clue to history ; The ecumenical vision ; Trinitarian mission --; Missionary theology in practice. Christ and the cultures ; The nature and calling of the church ; The gospel and world religions ; The missionary crisis in the West ; The gospel and public life N2 - Monumental figure in the twentieth-century worldwide church. Internationally esteemed British pastor and missionary theologian. Ecumenical statesman and prolific writer. Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was all of these and more. This reader fills a long-standing need for a comprehensive introduction to Newbigin and his legacy. Opening with a short biography of Newbigin and a discussion of his major theological and missiological themes, the volume sets selected readings in context with brief introductions and offers suggestions for further reading from Newbigin's corpus. --From publisher's description ER -