The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology (Biblia.com)

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Lesslie Newbigin, one of the twentieth century’s most important church leaders, offered insights on the church in a pluralistic world that are arguably more relevant now than when first written. This volume presents his ecclesiology to a new generation. Michael Goheen clearly articulates Newbigin’s missionary understanding of the church and places it in the context of Newbigin’s core theological...

stories are comprehensive and claim to be true. Both stories invite hearers to find their place in the story and so claim the ultimate allegiance of those who hear them. The Bible never stands in a cultural vacuum but is always in a context where it is challenged by an alternative and rival story.35 The problem in Western culture is that the biblical story has been tailored to fit into the more comprehensive cultural story. The fact-value dichotomy that plagues the West has forced the Bible into

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