Lesslie Newbigin

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Lesslie Newbigin

James Edward Lesslie Newbigin CBE (born December 8, 1909 in Newcastle upon Tyne , † January 30, 1998 in Herne Hill , London ) was a British Reformed theologian, missionary, general secretary, Anglican bishop in South India and missiologist.

Life

Newbigin was after the ordination in the Church of Scotland in 1936, first missionary in Madras ( India ). After the Church of South India was formed, he became one of its first bishops in 1947 . In 1959 he went to Geneva as General Secretary of the International Missionary Council . He accompanied the integration of the council into the World Council of Churches , as its deputy general secretary from 1960 to 1965. He then returned to the Church of South India to become Bishop of Madras. After retiring in 1974, he taught as a mission theologian at Selly Oak College in Birmingham , England . In 1978/79 he was the moderator of the United Reformed Church .

He had considerable influence in the worldwide ecumenical movement and in missiology , particularly with his reflections on mission in the culturally and religiously pluralistic western world of the late twentieth century. Because he realized that Western Europe had changed culturally significantly during his work in India and had lost his hope. Similar to his South African contemporary David Bosch , Newbigin was a bridge-building personality who received impulses in the World Council of Churches , the World Evangelical Alliance and the Emerging Church and whose influence continues to this day.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • A South India Diary. SCM, 1951.
    • South Indian diary. Experienced with people and powers. Evangelischer Missionsverlag, Stuttgart 1960.
  • The Household of God. Lectures on the Nature of the Church. SCM, 1953.
    • From division to unity. Ecumenical show of the church. Evangelischer Missionsverlag, Stuttgart 1956.
  • A Faith for this One World? 1961.
    • One world - one belief? Basileia, Basel 1963.
  • The relevance of trinitarian doctrine for today's mission. Edinburgh House Press, 1963.
    • Missionary Church in the secular world. The Triune God and our mission. Kaffke, Bergen-Enkheim 1966.
  • The Other Side of 1984. World Council of Churches, Geneva 1983, ISBN 978-2-8254-0784-4 .
    • Salt of the earth ?! Questions for the Church Today. Schriftenmissions-Verlag Neukirchen-Vluyn 1985, ISBN 978-3-7958-8907-4 .
  • Unfinished agenda. To Autobiography . London 1985, ISBN 0-281-04147-4 .
  • Foolishness to the Greeks. Gospel and Western Culture. Eerdmans / SPCK, 1986, ISBN 978-0-281-04232-6 .
    • "A folly for the Greeks". The gospel and our western culture. Sowing, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1989, ISBN 978-3-7615-4667-3 .
  • The gospel in a pluralistic society. Sowing, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7615-6401-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alan Roxburgh: The Gospel, the Church and the Culture. A missional reading of Lesslie Newbigin's theology , Francke, Marburg 2012
  2. George R. Hunsberger: Newbigin, (James Edward) Lesslie (2000). In: Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions
  3. Trevin Wax: Here's why i keep returning to Lesslie Newbigin , The Gospel Coalition, February 19, 2019