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A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian World Missions is unavailable, but you can change that!

This collection of 17 never-before-published essays, sermons, and addresses by Lesslie Newbigin, one of the premier missiologists of the twentieth century, puts forth his developing view of the agenda for Christian mission from 1960 to 1992. Considered “the quintessence of Newbigin’s thought” by editor Eleanor Jackson, these papers record the dynamics of Newbigin’s ideas about mission as he...

lead to a situation in which leadership in many fields of public life is being given by those who are committed Christians and who are seeking to discover what Christian obedience means in these areas. Such leadership would help to convert society as a whole from an agnostic and anarchic pluralism to a committed and truth-seeking pluralism. And if the word leadership provokes the charge of “elitism,” I am—once again—not seriously alarmed. To be elite (elect) is to be chosen for a task and to be responsible
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