Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West
The Book: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
The Conference
This Book
Student Christian Movement
India
IMC Tambaram Assembly 1938
Training for Ministry in India
Church Union
Lesslie Newbigin as Bishop
The Household of God
Interlude
Unfinished Agenda
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Encounters with Newbigin
Post–Vatican II Catholicism and Newbigin
Newbigin’s Central Orientation
Newbigin, Mission and Christianity as Christomorphic
Newbigin and Aggiornamento
A Catholic Appreciation of Newbigin’s Theology of Mission
Toward an Inconclusive Conclusion
Introduction: Setting Newbigin in the Context of Postmodernism
Newbigin’s View of Postmodernity
Missional Response to the Culture in Transition Between Modernity and Late Modernity
In Lieu of Conclusion: Seedthought for Further Reflections
Newbigin’s Theological Method
Theological Epistemology
Performing Newbigin’s Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context
6 Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture
Homogeneity: “The Specter at the Banquet of Modernity”
Perichoresis
Tracing over the Polanyian Lines in Newbigin
SFI and IFMs: Polanyian Epistemology and Its Respect for the Other
Covenant Epistemology
Implications for Church and Mission
Conclusion
7 Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century
The Spirit and Mission Theology: Expanding Newbigin’s Reach
Pentecost and Modern Science/Technology: Toward a Pneumatological Missiology
8 Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision
Newbigin’s Diagnosis of Evangelism in the West
The Message
The Messenger
The Method
Equipping the Messenger for the Method
A Model for Evangelistic Equipping Using Newbigin’s Embassy Framework
9 What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?
The Background Problem
Hermeneutic as Visibility
“Special Visibility” and the Question of History
History and Mission
Six Characteristics of the Church as Hermeneutic of the Gospel
Conclusion
10 Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism
What Christianity Has to Offer Pluralistic Asia
What Pluralistic Asia Has to Offer Christianity
Lesslie Newbigin on Asian Pluralism
The Future of Asian Theology
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West
Chapter 2: Newbigin in His Time
Chapter 3: Newbigin’s Theology of Mission and Culture After Twenty-Five Years: Attending to the “Subject” of Mission
Chapter 4: Community and Witness in Transition: Newbigin’s Missional Ecclesiology Between Modernity and Postmodernit
Chapter 5: Holistic Theological Method and Theological Epistemology: Performing Newbigin’s Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context
Chapter 6: Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture
Chapter 7: Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century
Chapter 8: Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision
Chapter 9: What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?
Chapter 10: Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism
Praise for The Gospel and Pluralism Today