"How can this strange story of God made man, of a crucified savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world that can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: congregations that believe it."
Lesslie Newbigin, Word in Season.
Upon the 100th anniversary of Newbigin's birthday yesterday, I read several posts and articles about him online. You should read the CT piece on Newbigin from 13 years ago (Part 1, Part 2). Newbigin was a missionary to India who, upon returning to his home in Great Britain, discovered that the West needed to be evangelized anew. I've read his book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society and have Foolishness to the Greeks on my "to read" list.
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