A House Divided? Reconsidering Newbigin’s <em>The Household of God,</em> Six Decades Later

Abstract

As “missional theology†becomes a buzzword in the church, many church leaders and pastors find themselves looking for new ways of thinking about and being church. Lesslie Newbigin’s The Household of God remains an indispensable contribution to this conversation. This article re-evaluates how Newbigin’s theology of eschatology from 1952 can be used in churches today. The church lives in mission and strives toward unity only when it first lives into its eschatological calling to be a sign, instrument, and foretaste of the kingdom of God.