Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After concluding his third lecture by discoursing on the doctrine of Election, The Right Reverend J. A. Lesslie Newbigin discussed in the main body of last night's lecture the content of Christ's revelation...
...speaker then expounded on the "dual character of the Gospel" and on the "new reality" of Christ's revelation. He explained that the Revelation is the announcement of something come, yet also coming. It is the coming of a new epoch--"the presence of the living God among...
Aspects of this new reality are three. One is the new "beloved community," welded by Christ's death into a society of men concerned for their neighbors. The fruit of this new community is love--the second aspect. The two manifestations of the Church's love are in word and action, that is, evangelism and service...
...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 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