Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What is it to be Christian?" asked the pastor...
...Christian Hope. The Rector of Heidelberg University, Dr. Edmund Schlink of Germany's Evangelical Church, opened the discussion on the assembly's main theme: "Christ-the Hope of the World." Speaking for the characteristic European point of view, Professor Schlink saw Christ's salvation not of the world but out of it. "Christ is the end of the world," he said. "The name of Christ is taken in vain if it is used as a slogan in this world's struggle for its own preservation . . . Jesus Christ then is the hope of the world . . . because...
This theology takes "seriously in practice . . . the traditional judgment that the Christian gospel is a word for this world ... Its characteristic hope looks for the ever clearer manifestation of God's sovereignty and the power of his promises in human history...
...Ambassador to the U.S. and head of one of the assembly discussion groups, called for the World Council to produce "a ringing, positive message-one of reality, of truth and of hope." Communism, he continued, "exposes the inadequacy, if not indeed the bankruptcy, of the Western-imperialistic and smug-Christian approach of the past ... At the present degree of spiritual impotence ... it is only a matter of time before the whole of Asia and Africa, and maybe even Europe, will be engulfed by Communism...
Afterwards, to a question from the floor: "Have any avowed atheistic Communists been converted to Christianity? If so, have they suffered any social or political disability?" Bishop Peter replied: "The answer to the first question is yes, and the answer to the second question is no." But the Rev. Guenter Jacob of Cottbus in the Soviet Zone of Germany saw things differently. "It is impossible." he said in a later speech, "to believe in both our Christian dogma and in the Communist dogma . . . It is an either-or proposition for any single-minded person...