Humble Confidence

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-227-18013-6
Verlag: James Clarke & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

A rich and engaging book on the important missionary theologian of the twentieth century that suggests how the ‘logic’ of Newbigin’s approach continues to be relevant and insightful.

Lesslie Newbigin's development of a fresh paradigm of missionary theology and cultural engagement has solidified his reputation as not just one of the most important missionary theologians of the twentieth century, but as continually relevant in the twenty-first. Paul Weston focusses on how the engagement with Michael Polanyi's understanding of 'personal knowledge' illuminates Newbigin's work, and contributes to its ongoing significance.

Interlinking themes of 'Revelation', 'Knowing' and 'Story' and tracing through Newbigin's engagements with modernity and post-modernity, Weston suggests how the 'logic' of Newbigin's approach continues to provide insight to mission theologians and practitioners. It is Weston's conviction that Humble Confidence presents Newbigin's thinking in a way that can serve the continuing mission of the church.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weston, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Scot Sherman
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Resources
Note to Reader

Introduction

Part One: Discovering the Story
1 Revelation
2 Knowing
3 Story

Part Two: Losing the Story
4 The Genesis of a Project
5 The Critique of Modernity
6 The Post-Modern Turn

Part Three: Living the Story
7 The Church as Sign
8 Telling the Story
9 The Story in Dialogue
10 Jesus and the World's Faiths
11 The Gospel as Public Truth
12 Engaging Theology

Epilogue
Bibliography
Scripture Index
Author Index
Subject Index