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The Church and Its Vocation: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

while his development of the work of the Spirit is full and rich, his reflection on the Father is less so. Yet what he does say is significant. Newbigin’s own starting point is to note that according to the New Testament witness, Jesus carries out his mission in a relationship of the Son to the Father. Jesus’s mission unfolds in relation to the Father as the sovereign ruler of history who is directing all things to accomplish his purpose. Jesus steps into the story of the Old Testament, which is
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