Worldly Christian, A

Stephen Neill (1900-1984) was a towering figure of twentieth-centuryglobal Christianity, but was in many ways a broken man who faced profound andcrippling struggles. A Worldly Christian charts the extraordinary butoften tragic life of a global Christian pioneer par excellence in a church thatdiversified dramatically during his lifetime. Privileged to live in radically different culturalcontexts over the course of his life, Neill excelled by turns as a missionaryand bishop in India, an ecumenist in Geneva, a professor in Hamburg andNairobi, and a prolific author of some seventy books and hundreds of articlesupon his retirement to the UK. Throughout this varied career, he shared histremendous knowledge of the world Christian movement with scholars, clergy andlaypersons alike. Many will find his story compelling, from Christian scholarsto all those who have cherished his influential body of work and benefit fromhis legacy.