but it listens primarily to the Word, and only secondarily to the world in its self-assessed needs: already in a 1938 article on the “Under Thirty” page of the London weekly The Spectator the young Newbigin had declared that “the Gospel is something more serious than a solution to man’s problems; it is a fresh and original word addressed to him from beyond the range of his problems by God, his maker.” In the wide-ranging Cambridge lectures Newbigin treats in their current form several topics on which