ABSTRACT
Missionaries, Lesslie Newbigin used to say, are those who live on the cultural frontier. His own missionary experience, which began in the 1930s, was rooted in a slower world, before the ·space-time compression' which marks the postmodern world. Today perhaps we are all on the cultural frontier. The idea of the cultural frontier, however, as used by Newbigin, evokes the sense of those cultures which are not fundamentally marked by Christianity. Just as any theology of culture has to address the issue of power, so it has to address the issue of the relation of the Christian faith community to non-Christian cultures.
