Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last spring, two Administration officials--Admiral Strauss and Edward Teller--completely dominated the disarmament policy of the U.S., Saville R. Davis, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, told the Adams House Political Forum last night...
...Christian authority to teach the gospel, Newbigin declared, derives from the fact that the "total event of Christ" was indeed an event, on whose reality all men were agreed, and was not merely a teaching or a philosophy. Modern Christians may teach greater men than themselves for the same reason that the rabble of the time could enter heaven before their greater contemporaries--because the established religious men of the day were concerned with their own self-righteousness. In the "total event of Christ" Newbigin stated, men were--and are--confronted with a demand over and above the demands...
Newbigin's third opponent was the philosopher Hocking, who seeks to reduce the living Christian faith to a set of academic ideas. In his concept of the confluence of all religions into one main stream, Hocking submerges the factual basis of Christian belief. "Christianity isn't views, it's news," stated Newbigin...
...Monday's issue Rev. Newbigin was mistakenly reported to have called for a return to a cyclical historical concept. It was the opposite idea, that of purposive change, which he declared based in the Christian faith and grounded in Western culture. The CRIMSON regrets the error...
...secularized form of the Kingdom of God," the Rev. Newbigin asserted. Before the second coming of Christ, there must be a return to the old cyclical conception: evaluation of time by the number of epochs between the appearances of the Messiah. The present technological culture of Christian society cannot remain religiously neutral; society "must revolve around Christ or the anti-Christ, around the true Absolute or its negation...