Quotes by Lesslie Newbigin
Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) — Missionsbischof · Reformiert · England
Lesslie Newbigin (1909–1998) war ein britischer reformierter Theologe, Missionar und Bischof der Church of South India, der fast vier Jahrzehnte in Indien sowie später als Dozent und Pastor in England wirkte. Bekannt ist er für seine Analysen zur Säkularisierung westlicher Gesellschaften und sein Eintreten dafür, das Evangelium in einer pluralistischen Kultur als rationale öffentliche Wahrheit zu bezeugen. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk Impulse, die biblische Botschaft im Dialog mit der Gegenwartskultur zu reflektieren, ohne den exklusiven Heilsanspruch Jesu Christi zu relativieren.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Justice & Commitment, Joy & Gratitude, Church & Congregation, Witness & Mission, Wisdom & Understanding, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Hope & Confidence, The Bible & the Word of God
Quotes by Lesslie Newbigin
Wherever heaven is to be brought down to earth, hell ends up being raised instead.
Lesslie Newbigin
Courage and confidence are marks of those who are astonished with joy and who know that they will always be astonished anew, because God is great.
Lesslie Newbigin
We are exactly where the Reformers had reason to complain. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the laity.
Lesslie Newbigin
We cannot faithfully fulfil our missionary responsibility to our own people if we are unwilling to listen to what the living God has to say to us through his servants in other cultures.
Lesslie Newbigin
We cannot turn back history, but perhaps we can learn from history.
Lesslie Newbigin
A preaching of the gospel that calls men and women to accept Jesus as their Savior but does not make it clear that discipleship means a commitment to a vision of society radically different from that which controls our public life today must be condemned as false.
Lesslie Newbigin
There has been a long tradition which sees the mission of the Church primarily as obedience to a command. It has been customary to speak of “the missionary mandate.” This way of putting the matter is certainly not without justification, and yet it seems to me that it misses the point. It tends to make mission a burden rather than a joy, to make it part of the law rather than part of the gospel. If one looks at the New Testament evidence one gets another impression. Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is more like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.
Lesslie Newbigin
It has become a commonplace to say that we live in a pluralistic society – not merely a society which is in fact plural in the variety of cultures, religions and lifestyles which it embraces, but pluralistic in the sense that this plurality is celebrated as a thing to be approved and cherished.
Lesslie Newbigin
Sources: wikipedia.org, bu.edu, thegospelcoalition.org, ivpbooks.com
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