This collection of seventeen never-before-published essays, sermons, and addresses by Lesslie Newbigin, one of the premier missiologists of the twentieth century, puts forth his developing view of the agenda for Christian mission from 1960 to 1992. Considered "the quintessence of Newbigin's thought" by editor Eleanor Jackson, these papers record the dynamics of Newbigin's ideas about mission as he confronted new issues in the church and society. Newbigin's sermon at Riverside Church in New York City in 1960 opens discussion on the themes of unity in mission, changes in the missionary...

This collection of lectures by the secretary and friend of Karl Barth establishes her as a theologian in her own right. She addresses important early feminist issues such as the divinely ordained nature of relationships between the sexes and the rights of women to lay and ordained ministry in the church.