Reid, John, 1928 July 15-,

Modern, postmodern and Christian / [print] John Reid, Lesslie Newbigin, David Pullinger. - Carberry, Scotland. : Handsel Press, (c)1996. - 72 pages ; 22 cm. - Lausanne occasional papers ; no. 27 .

Includes bibliographical references.

1: Introduction by Leslie Newbigin -- 2: Modernity and beyond by John Reid -- 2a: The idea -- 2b: Modernity and the church -- 2c: Spirituality -- 2d: Doctrine of God -- 2e: The human person -- 2f: The Kingdom of God -- 2g: False dreams -- 2h: The Christian mission -- 2i: Modernity, Postmodernity, and the media -- 3: Communicating the Gospel to Postmoderns by David Pullinger -- 3a: Where to begin? -- 3b: Inner liturgies -- 3c: The world of works -- 3d: Concluding remarks -- 4: Questions and Bible passages for group study by Margaret Garden, Tom Houston and others.

Three basic contexts of Christian mission have been identified in today's world. These are secularised peoples, resistant peoples and responsive peoples. (Living Word for a Dying World' Consultation, Forum of Bible Agencies, De Bron, Netherlands, April 1994.) It is widely acknowledged that the first context located in western countries and among westernised elites in the two-thirds world has been to a large extent determined by the thought processes described by the words modernity' and postmodernity'



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Missions.
Modernism (Christian theology)
Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

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