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Foolishness to the Greeks: Gospel and Western Culture
 
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Foolishness to the Greeks: Gospel and Western Culture (Paperback)
by Lesslie Newbigin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 156 pages
  • Publisher: SPCK Publishing (4 Sep 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0281042322
  • ISBN-13: 978-0281042326
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,996 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Attendance at church in Western societies is shrinking. This book examines the principles and problems involved in the cross-cultural communication of the Gospel and suggests how the Church can engage creatively and effectively with Western culture.

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5.0 out of 5 stars essential read for evangelical christians, 30 April 2002
By b.j.embry@dur.ac.uk (durham, england) - See all my reviews
I found Newbigin's work most stimulating. His approach to the Christian worldview is, of course, colored by his 40 years as a missionary to India. Perhaps tempered is a better word, because his insights into Western Christianity are profound.

His main point is that the most resistent culture to Christian evangelism is the very culture that sends most missionaries into the world, namely the West. This resistence is a result of an acculturation which pits a reality based on the now defunct dualism of Newton against the Gospel message. This serves as a most resistent barrier to the Gospel message, but one that is, in Newbigin's view, fundamentally flawed.

In short, Newbigin details the rise and fall of Enlightenmental dualism as a valid critique for social sciences. As a result, he shows that it is methodologically flawed to divorce purpose and intent from observable phenomena. Newbigin then goes on to construct the m