May 2012
17 posts
Even if it is a very small congregation, and perhaps even especially when it is...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p87
The most important contribution which the Church can make to a new social order...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p85
If we accept the model of what I have called a committed pluralism, we can look...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p85
It should become part of the normal work of the Church to equip its members for...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p84
If I understand the teaching of the New Testament on this matter, I understand...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p82
We have to reject ideologies which give to particular elements in God’s...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp80-81
The idea that if economic life is detached from all moral considerations and...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p77
The ideology which we have to recognize, unmask, and reject is an ideology of...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p75
The proper freedom of the Church is inseparable from its obligation to declare...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p71
… life moves toward its proper completion not automatically by any purely...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p93
The freedom of the Church from control in spiritual matters by the state is an...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p70
When we affirm, as the Church must do, that freedom is not the natural endowment...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p61
A society in which any kind of nonsense is acceptable is not a free society. An...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p60
Both objectivism and subjectivism are ways of evading personal responsibility...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p59
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[J]ust as we refuse to believe that there is no third possibility between a...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth pp58-59
There can be no true evangelism except that which announces what is not only...
– Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth p52
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Our problem is that most of us who are Christians are brought up bilingual. For...