Foolishness to the Greeks
The Gospel and Western Culture

Newbigin gives us an analysis of Western culture from the perspective of a long-term missionary. His primary question is, "What would be involved in a genuinely missionary encounter between the gospel and modern western culture?" His close reading of the modern western world is insightful, revealing......more

Remarkable book. Way back in the 80s Newbigin was saying what struck me as new in the late 90s and early 2000s. I wish I'd been exposed to his way of thinking earlier.......more

This is a smart book--a missiologist's approach to what Christianity means in a post-Christian culture. It contains long technical philosophical arguments, but they are accessible to most well-read laypeople. Newbigin has been important to my intellectual formation, though I often find his arguments......more

A dense little book, a bit outdated, but still quite relevant. What if a deeply thoughtful former missionary assessed western culture as if it were a foreign culture? That’s what Newbigin did, and it’s very eye opening!......more

This book was written by a man who was a missionary in India for a number of years. The premise is that he is challenging Western Christians to consider the nature of a “missionary encounter” with their own culture. He rightly points out that Western thought and Christianity have been so intertwined......more