Newbigin’s book draws heavily on observation and history. Only in the first and last chapters does he bring forth illumination from the Scriptures. In the middle chapters, he spends a considerable amount of time discussing the influence science, politics, and religion have on modern Western culture. The final chapter is a call [...]

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Lesslie Newbigin was a missionary to India for nearly 30 years before he moved back to England to work in the inner city. He credits the transition from India back to England as a large reason why he wrote his books on cultural communication. His book, Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and [...]

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I’m posting my review of Lesslie Newbigin’s Foolishness to the Greeks over the next couple days. It’ll come in three installments:

A summary of each chapter of the book (February 27, 2007)
An evaluation based on biblical, missiological, and theological perspectives (February 28, 2007)
A discussion of several principles relating to cross-cultural communication of the Gospel [...]

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I made a few changes to my permalinks so that my pages are no longer listed by number, but by date and title.  This won’t mean much to most of you, but just know that any previous links you’ve made to individual posts may or may not work.  Granted, 2 months ago I messed everything [...]

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