Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that Newbigin, like most Christian missionaries in potential Asian and African "democratic showcases," does not feel that anti-Communism is a creed for men to live by. "Communism should be fought, but the Church cannot be defined as anti-anything. It approaches people simply as human beings." In India, a religiously sophisticated nation, conversion is never a matter of "trying to rope people into the show, and a sense of God is taken naturally by the Indians," according to Newbigin. The main growth of Christianity is now taking place in the villages, by word-of-mouth rather than organized...
Contrary to some popular belief, there is an operating Christian Church in China. But there has been a great breach between the missions of the China mainland and the West. Newbigin hoped that an attempt will be made to heal this breach, rather than to send more missionaries from the West to impress Western viewpoints upon China...
...Chinese missionary situation is only one of a multiplicity of problems confronting the Christian world mission effort, Newbigin continued. The biggest present difficulty of the mission is a kind of evolutionary dislocation of the effort's effectiveness, since the sources of distribution and wealth have changed without compensation...
...next missionary step, Newbigin declared, is a centralization of the Christian Church councils on a world-wide basis, a pooling of resources, and assistance in a system of U.N.-like cooperation...
Newbigin discussed two of the three aspects of the "total event of Christ"--the doctrines of Creation and of Sin. Discussion of the third, the doctrine of Election, concerning the condition of Christian unity, was postponed last night because of time considerations and will precede tonight's lecture