"Heather Warren shows how, in creating a coherent, theologically derived position and bringing it to bear on contemporary international issues, this group combined ideas with public action in a way that set the standard for American theologians' social activism in the years to c…
This book tells how a group of Protestant theologians, including Henry P. Van Dusen, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Bennett, Francis P. Miller, Georgia Harkness, and Samuel McCrea Cavert, forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and '40s. As a result, they …
"This biography portrays its subject chiefly as a theologian, whose thought, work, and life were rooted in a firm personal faith, an obedient discipleship to Christ, and a vigorous commitment to sharing the Gospel with people of other beliefs. Newbigin is here proposed as an exe…
This book offers an intellectual and spiritual biography of Lesslie Newbigin, a figure of patristic proportions in the twentieth-century history of the Church. Drawing on thirty-five years of personal and literary acquaintance with his subject and on a thorough examination of th…
Lesslie Newbigin was a figure of patristic proportions in the 20th-century history of the Church. In this intellectual and spiritual biography, Geoffrey Wainwright displays the theological character of his subject's multifarious engagement in the search for Christian unity, the …
"'Ecumenism' and 'independency' suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and shared belief and practice, and the impulse for distinction, plurality, and contextual translation. Yet ecumenism and independency …
Introduction: Ecumenism and independency in world Christianity / Emma Wild-Wood -- 1899-1900 : ecumenism and independency in the emerging world history of Christianity / Mark Noll -- Independency in ecumenical Christianity / David M. Thompson -- Mission : integrated or autonomou…
