Lesslie Newbigin

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James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 – 30 January 1998) was a British

A month later he married Helen Henderson, and in September 1936 they both set off for India where they had one son and three daughters. He also had a sister, Frances, who was a regular worshipper at Jesmond URC (formerly Presbyterian), Newcastle upon Tyne, in the late 1970s and into the 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

Career as Bishop

In 1947, the fledgling

After he retired, Newbigin regularly had theology students come over from King's College London to read chapters of theological texts to him since his vision had diminished. Despite his fading eyesight, he continued preaching; he told parishioners at St Paul's Church in nearby Herne Hill that when he preached, he would prepare his entire homily in his head long before he was scheduled to give it, and preach from memory. Sydney Carter was a regular attender of the services when he preached. He died in West Dulwich, London, England on 30 January 1998 and was cremated at West Norwood Cemetery. At Newbigin's funeral service on 7 February 1998 his close friend Dr. Dan Beeby said, "Not too long ago, some children in Selly Oak were helped to see the world upside down when the aged bishop stood on his head! Not a single one of his many doctorates or his CBE fell out of his pockets. His episcopacy was intact."

Legacy

Theologian and Lesslie Newbigin historian Geoffrey Wainwright commented that when the history of the 20th century church is written, Lesslie Newbigin should be considered one of the top ten or twelve most influential persons.^[5]

In 2008, Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan opened the Newbigin House of Studies with City Church San Francisco, focused specifically on leadership development of laity.^[12]

Lesslie Newbigin is honored with a commemoration on the liturgical calendar of the Anglican Church in North America on January 29.^[13]

Bibliography

Autobiography

• Unfinished Agenda, St Andrew's Press, 1993,
  ISBN 978-0-7152-0679-9

• A South India Diary, SCM, 1951 (revised 1960)
• The Household of God: Lectures on the Nature of the Church, SCM, 1953 (reprinted Paternoster, 1998,
  ISBN 978-0-85364-935-9
  )
• Sin and Salvation, 1956, SCM
• A Faith for this One World? (1961)
• Trinitarian Doctrine for Today's Mission, Edinburgh House Press, 1963, (reprinted Paternoster, 1998,
  ISBN 978-0-85364-797-3
  )
• Honest Religion for Secular Man, SCM, 1966
• The Finality of Christ, SCM, 1969
• The Good Shepherd, Faith Press, 1977
• The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission, SPCK/Eerdmans, 1978,
  ISBN 978-0-8028-0829-5
  ]
• The Light Has Come, Eerdmans, 1982,
  ISBN 978-1-871828-31-3
• The Other Side of 1984, World Council of Churches, 1983,
  ISBN 978-2-8254-0784-4
• Foolishness to the Greeks: Gospel and Western Culture, Eerdmans/SPCK, 1986,
  ISBN 978-0-281-04232-6
• The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, SPCK/Eerdmans/WCC, 1989,
  ISBN 978-0-281-04435-1
• Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth, SPCK, 1991,
  ISBN 0-8028-0607-4
• A Word in Season: Perspectives on Christian World Missions, edited by Eleanor Jackson, Saint Andrew Press/Eerdmans, 1994,
  ISBN 978-0-7152-0704-8
• Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt and Certainty in Christian Discipleship, SPCK, 1995,
  ISBN 978-0-281-04915-8
• Truth and Authority in Modernity, Gracewing Publishing, 1996,
  ISBN 978-1-56338-168-3
• Signs amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History, edited and introduced by Geoffrey Wainwright, Eerdmans, 2003,
  ISBN 978-0-8028-0989-6

• A Walk Through the Bible, SPCK/Westminster John Knox Press, 2000,
  ISBN 978-1-57383-357-8
• Discovering Truth in a Changing World, Alpha International, 2003,
  ISBN 978-1-904074-35-9
• Living Hope in a Changing World, Alpha International, 2003,
  ISBN 978-1-904074-36-6

Papers of Lesslie Newbigin are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.[14]

See also

• Missiology
• Ecclesiology
• Theology

References

Further reading

• Bearing the Witness of the Spirit: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Cultural Plurality, George R. Hunsberger, Eerdmans, 1998,
  ISBN 978-0-8028-4369-2
• Lesslie Newbigin: A Theological Life, Geoffrey Wainwright, Oxford University Press, 2000,
  ISBN 978-0-19-510171-3
• "As The Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You": J. E. Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology, Michael W. Goheen, Boekencentrum, 2000,
  ISBN 978-90-239-0976-7
• Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian: a Reader, Paul Weston (ed.), SPCK/Eerdmans, 2006
  ISBN 978-0-8028-2982-5
  (includes nearly 30 texts by Newbigin)
• Grasping Truth and Reality: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Mission to the Western World, Donald LeRoy Stults, Wipf and Stock, 2008,
  ISBN 978-1-55635-723-7
• Christian Mission in Eschatological Perspective: Lesslie Newbigin's Contribution, Jürgen Schuster, VTR Publications, 2009,
  ISBN 978-3-941750-15-9
• The Mission of the Triune God: Trinitarian Missiology in the Tradition of Lesslie NeBNwbigin, Adam Dodds, Pickwick Publications, 2017
  ISBN 978-1498283465
• Beetham, Margaret Newbigin, Home is Where: The Journey of a Missionary Child, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2019
  ISBN 978-0-232-53408-5

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Lesslie Newbigin.

• Over 250 texts by Newbigin and 50 responses to him, in a searchable database, at Newbigin.net
• Biography at Newbigin.net
• Extensive Newbigin-only bibliography at Newbigin.net
• Newbigin Reading Room – On-line texts by and on Lesslie Newbigin maintained by Donald Goertz, Tyndale Seminary
• The Gospel & Our Culture – Newbigin page and their biography page
• "A Tribute to Bishop Lesslie Newbigin" from the Anglican Communion News Service, 18 February 1998
• Obituary; The Right Rev Lesslie Newbigin, The (London) Independent, 4 February 1998 by H. Dan Beeby.
• Audio of lecture entitled 'Christ: Unique and Universal'
• Audio of lecture entitled 'Nihilism'
• List of audio of Bishop Newbigin's sermons available online

Religious titles
Preceded by P. Solomon 1964-1966	Deputy Moderator Church of South India 1954-1960 1966-1974	Succeeded by A. G. Jebaraj 1960-1964 Solomon Doraiswamy 1974-1980
Preceded by -	Bishop in Madurai-Ramnad Church of South India 1947–1958	Succeeded by George Devadoss 1959-1978
Preceded by D. Chellappa 1955-1964	Bishop in Madras Church of South India 1965–1974	Succeeded by Sundar Clarke 1974-1989
Other offices
Preceded by -	General Secretary International Missionary Council 1959-1961	Succeeded by -