The Gospel and Pluralism Today - Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century

Sunquist, Scott W./ Yong, Amos

Inter-Varsity Press,US（2015/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780830850945
• DDC分類 261

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Toward the end of the twentieth century, Lesslie Newbigin offered a penetrating analysis of the challenges of pluralism that confronted a Western culture and society reeling from the dissolution of Christendom. His enormous influence has been felt ever since. Newbigin (1909-1998) was a longtime Church of Scotland missionary to India and later General Secretary of the International Missionary Council and Associate General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.
The first installment in the Missiological Engagements series, the essays in this volume explore three aspects of Newbigin?s legacy. First, they assess the impact of his 1989 book, Gospel in a Pluralist Society, on Christian mission and evangelism in the West. Second, they critically analyze the nature of Western pluralism in its many dimensions to discern how Christianity can proclaim good news for today. Finally, the contributors discuss the influence of Newbigin's work on the field of missiology. By looking backward, this volume recommends and advances a vision for Christian witness in the pluralistic world of the twenty-first century.
Contributions from leading missiologists and theologians, including:

William Burrows
John Flett
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Esther Meek
Wilbert Shenk

Missiological Engagements charts interdisciplinary and innovative trajectories in the history, theology, and practice of Christian mission, featuring contributions by leading thinkers from both the Euro-American West and the majority world whose missiological scholarship bridges church, academy, and society.

Contents

Acknowledgments

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1. Introduction: The Legacy of Newbigin for Mission to the West

Scott W. Sunquist

2. Newbigin in His Time

Wilbert R. Shenk

3. Newbigin?s Theology of Mission and Culture After Twenty-Five Years: Attending to the "Subject" of Mission

William R. Burrows

4. Community and Witness in Transition: Newbigin?s Missional Ecclesiology Between Modernity and Postmodernity

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Michael Karim

5. Holistic Theological Method and Theological Epistemology: Performing Newbigin?s Plurality of Sources in the Pluralist Context

Steven B. Sherman

6. Honoring True Otherness in a Still-Antipluralist Culture

Esther L. Meek

7. Pluralism, Secularism and Pentecost: Newbigin-ings for Missio Trinitatis in a New Century

Amos Yong

8. Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society: The Newbigin Vision

Carrie Boren Headington

9. What Does It Mean for a Congregation to Be a Hermeneutic?

John G. Flett

10. Asian Perspectives on Twenty-First-Century Pluralism

Allen Yeh



Contributors

Index