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A Missionary Encounter with the West: A Guide to Lesslie Newbigin

November 2nd, 2021 | 27 min read

By Michael Goheen

Lesslie Newbigin has been characterized by a leading church historian as “probably the most influential British theologian of the twentieth century.”[1] He spent 40 years in India as a missionary. When he returned to Europe, he had fresh eyes to see Western culture in a new way. In the last decades of his life, he insisted that “the most urgent task facing the universal church at this time” is to recover a missionary encounter with Western culture.[2]

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