1979-80 Letters to:from McGavran & Conn
Note: earliest letters are at the bottom. Read from the bottom up for date order and flow.
Overall theme of their interaction is related to Harvey Conn’s agreement to speak at the Church Growth Lectures at Fuller in 1980.
May 7, 1979 – McGavran to Conn – Topic suggestions: Theology and Anthropology.
May 11, 1979 – Conn to McGavran – Conn’s Anthropology experience is what Fuller is putting out. [Mentions a missing letter on June 7, 1979 from Conn.]
August 7, 1979 – McGavran to Conn with attachment of marked up Bruce A. Demarest CT article “Six Modern Christologies: Doing Away with the God-Man.
Sept. 7, 1979 – Conn to McGavran
Oct. 26, 1979 McGavran to Conn – brief letter, more to tome.
Nov. 13, 1979 McGavran to Conn – Writes about Conn’s upcoming Church Growth Lectures in 1980, the nature of revelation in the Bible, Carl F.H. Henry’s 4 vol. work, comments on Conn’s previous letter (not in this post).
Dec. 11, 1979 Conn to McGavran – Conn seeks to grapple with the issues he feels are outside his comfort zone (anthropology) and comments on Stott, and Carl F.H. Henry.
January 3, 1980 McGavran to Conn – Discusses the difference between Anthropology and Theology and the importance not to relativize truth when speaking to all cultures.
January 10, 1980 Conn to McGavran – Discussing the Update in World Missions course Conn is teaching, and prayer for the “hidden peoples”