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Lesslie Newbigin, born on December 8, 1909 and died on January 30, 1998, was a prominent Christian theologian and author. His work focused on cultural, religious, and social issues, and had a profound impact on contemporary Christian theology.

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“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”

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“Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.”

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Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.”

“Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.”

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Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

About the Author

Born: December 8, 1909
Died: January 30, 1998
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Quotes: 45

Books & Sources

Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western CultureRelated source material

Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian DiscipleshipRelated source material

The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK ClassicRelated source material

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The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of MissionRelated source material

Honest Religion for Secular ManRelated source material

The Finality of ChristRelated source material

Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public TruthRelated source material

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