Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture - Softcover

Lesslie Newbigin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 282540859X ISBN 13: 9782825408599

Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications), 1987

Synopsis

How can biblical authority be a reality for those shaped by the modern world? This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of contemporary Western culture.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book is a somewhat expanded version of the Warfield Lectures given at Princeton Theological Seminary in March 1984.

About the Author

(1909-1998) Lesslie Newbigin was born inNewcastle-on-Tyne, U.K., in 1909. He completed hisundergraduate studies in Cambridge and then served asStaffSecretary of the Student Christian Movement in Glasgow,Scotland. He studied theology at Westminster College atCambridge and was ordained by the Presbytery ofEdinburgh,Church of Scotland in 1936. That same year Newbiginmarried Helen Henderson and the two of them left for Indiawhere he was to be missionary of the Church of Scotland.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications)
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 282540859X
• ISBN 13: 9782825408599
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156