A Faith for this One World
Overview
Is the world really becoming one civilization? If so, will its religions merge? Or, if Christianity has a unique authority, what are the presuppositions and content of the revelation which it embodies? And how must its institutions change in order that it may fulfill its mission to the nations?
These are the questions answered by Lesslie Newbigin, one time bishop of the Church of South India, leader of the World Council of Churches’ missionary studies. All who are interested in the comparison of religions or in the mission of the church will value his presentation of vast and important themes.
For more by Lesslie Newbigin, see Select Works of Lesslie Newbigin (7 vols.).
Key Features
- Investigates the globalization of civilization
- Asks how religions will interact with one another as the world gets “smaller”
- Details how institutions must change to fulfill their mission to the nations
Top Highlights
“There is emerging a single world culture which has its characteristic expression in the rapidly growing cities in all parts of the world, and which has as its common substance the science and technology which have been developed in the West, and as its driving power the belief in the possibility of rational planning for total human welfare. This world culture is made possible by the existence of modern means of communication and transport.” (Page 109)
“It is common knowledge that the modern missionary movement took its rise in a time when the great churches were blind to their missionary obligation. It began as a concern of individuals who were moved, through a new birth of the Spirit, to a conviction concerning the need of every man for Christ. The churches were, in the main, indifferent or hostile.” (Pages 109–110)
“We must consider now at least these three elements in the faith which Jesus accepted from Israel, in which his own deeds and words were rooted and without which they cannot be-understood. First is the faith that the God in whose name Jesus has come is the Creator of all things, the sovereign Lord of time with power to bring one age to an end and to declare the coming of a new one. Second is the faith that mankind, created in God’s image, is fallen from his true estate and involved in a common sin against the creator. Third is the faith that what God is doing in Christ is the culmination of a plan which begins with the choosing of a people to be his own people, to be his witnesses and the agents of his purpose for the world.” (Page 61)
- Title: A Faith for This One World?
- Author: Lesslie Newbigin
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christianity › Essence, genius, nature; Christianity and other religions; Missions › Theory
- ISBNs: 9781610977098, 1610977092
- Resource ID: LLS:FTHTHSNWRLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:08:45Z