I've been really enjoying Lesslie Newbigin's Foolishness to the Greeks. It's not an easy read, but well worth the effort. Here's Newbigin's clarion call to the church (now from over 25 years ago, but quite prophetic) to 'think' in order to missionally and effectively engage with a post-Enlightenment Western culture."When the ultimate explanation of things is found in the creating, sustaining, judging, and redeeming work of a personal God, then science can be the servant of humanity, not its master. It is only this testimony that can save our culture from dissolving into the irrational fanaticism that is the child of total skepticism. It will perhaps be the greatest task of the church in the twenty-first century to be the bastion of rationality in a world of unreason. But for that, Christians will have to learn that conversion is a matter not only of the heart and will but also of the mind."
L.Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, (SPCK, 1986), p. 84
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