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Article: Proper confidence: faith, doubt and certainty in Christian discipleship.
- Article from:
- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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by Lesslie Newbigin (Eerdmans, 1995, $14.75). Reviewed by Peter Bush.
Lesslie Newbigin, an outstanding leader of the ecumenical church in the 20th century, offers the church a way to talk about its faith with proper confidence in the next century. As heirs of Descartes, who doubted everything until he got to "I think therefore I am," and the Enlightenment commitment to trust only scientifically provable facts, the church in the western world has had little confidence in speaking to the surrounding culture. The intellectual impact of the Enlightenment led to two seemingly divergent responses within the church.
The first response was to whole-heartedly ...