Sin and Salvation

by Lesslie Newbigin

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2009

Overview

Originally written to educate South Indian teachers in the basics of the gospel, this primer by Lesslie Newbigin addresses the unique misunderstandings of the Tamil people to whom Newbigin ministered. The Tamil language was so limited, says Newbigin, that 1 Timothy 1:15 might as well be translated, “Christ Jesus came into the world to provide free board and lodging to rascals!” With this challenge in mind, Newbigin presses the desperate condition in which sin has left us, and our profound need for God’s unmerited grace.

Key Features

• Written to educate South Indian teachers in the basics of the gospel
• Highlights the difficulties of communicating biblical truths to the Tamil people
• Presses the desperate condition in which sin has left man

Contents

Top Highlights

“Unbelief is the beginning of sin. Unbelief, in fact, is the very root and basis of sin” (Page 20)

“When we say ‘God is Love’, we mean that the fulness of love exists in God. But fulness of love only exists where love is both given and received. Fulness of love cannot exist in an individual. Therefore also when God created man in His own image, He created him male and female. The image of God is not seen in an individual man, but in man-and-woman bound together in love.” (Page 18)

“Thus the nature of man is that he was made in love, by love, for love. Love is the source and end of his being” (Page 17)

“man’s essential nature is to be found in a reflecting of God’s love” (Page 18)

“To create the heavens and the earth costs Him no labour, no anguish; to take away the sin of the world costs Him His own life-blood.” (Page 32)

Product Details

• Title: Sin and Salvation
• Author: Lesslie Newbigin
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 128
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Salvation › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781606085820, 1606085824
• Resource ID: LLS:SINANDSALVATION
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:00:28Z

About Lesslie Newbigin

Bishop James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 – 30 January 1998) was a Church of Scotland missionary serving in the former Madras State, India, who became a Christian theologian and bishop involved in missiology, ecumenism, and the Gospel and Our Culture Movement.