Grasping Truth and Reality: Lesslie Newbigin's Theology of Mission to the Western World

When Lesslie Newbigin returned to Britain in 1974 after years of missionary service, he observed that his homeland was as much a mission field as India, where he had spent the majority of his missionary career. He concluded that the Western world needed a missionary confrontation. Instead of the traditional approach to missions, however, Newbigin realized that the Western world needed to be confronted theologically.

From his earliest days at Cambridge University, Newbigin developed certain ...