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Lesslie Newbigin Quotes

1909–1998 England

Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 – 30 January 1998) was a Christian theologian and bishop involved in missiology and the Gospel & Our Culture Movement.

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The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

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