Newbigin on the Gospel and Culture

Has it really been 10 days since I’ve posted anything? Life has been so busy lately, I’ve been completely out of the blogging state of mind (I’m getting good thesis work done though). Anyway, here’s a quote from Lesslie Newbigin’s excellent book Foolishness to the Greeks:

The idea that one can or could at any time separate out by some process of distillation a pure gospel unadulterated by any cultural accretions is an illusion. It is, in fact, an abandonment of the gospel, for the gospel is about the word made flesh…. Yet the gospel, which is from the beginning to end embodied in culturally conditioned forms, calls into question all cultures, including the one in which it was originally embodied. (pg. 4)