From Krish Kandiah's personal reflection on Lesslie's Newbigin's influence on him:
In “Sin and Salvation”, (Newbigin 1956) a book Newbigin wrote on the boat journey as he travelled out to India, he explained how sin amounts to four dimensions of alienation. In a chapter entitled “What is Salvation?” he outlines this four-dimensional schema as follows:
- Man is in a state of contradiction against the natural world
- Man is in a state of contradiction against his fellow man
- Man is in a state of inner self-contradiction
- Man is in a state of contradiction against God
