Humble Confidence: Lesslie Newbigin and the Logic of Mission - Hardcover

by Paul Weston (Author), Scot Sherman (Foreword by)

Lesslie Newbigin remains one of the most important missionary theologians of the twentieth century. In responding to the challenges of late modernity, he developed a fresh paradigm of missionary theology and cultural engagement that continues to be compelling and prophetic. This book also explores the way in which Michael Polanyi's understanding of "personal knowledge" helps to give language and metaphor to Newbigin's convictions about cultural engagement and responsive witness and suggests vibrant insights and applications for mission today.

Author Biography

Paul Weston is director of the Newbigin Centre for Gospel and Western Culture, Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He lectures in mission studies in the Cambridge Theological Federation and is an affiliated lecturer in the Cambridge University Divinity Faculty. His PhD was on Lesslie Newbigin's missionary engagement with Western culture, and he has written widely on his work. He is editor of Lesslie Newbigin, Missionary Theologian: A Reader (2006), and co-editor of Theology in Missionary Perspective: Lesslie Newbigin's Legacy (2012).