Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Church has played a vital part in the impressive national drive that has swept through India since the British left in 1947. The tempo of change did not really pick up until 1951, when it became clear than the first Five Year Plan was succeeding. Although India's development has been mainly government run, many civil officials credit the Church with having "showed them how." Among the more interesting reforms the United Church has supported is an educational pilot project involving sociologists, technicians, and village residents. They will attempt to shape industry around village requirements and, if successful, should...
...Perhaps the crucial missionary task today is communist China," observed The Right Rev. J. E. Lesslie Newbigin during the final William Belden Noble lecture last night in Memorial Church...
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...
...last of five lectures on the subject A Faith for Our World, Newbigin related the China problem to Arnold Toynbee's criticisms of the Church. Newbigin agreed with one point of Toynbee's: That Christianity, it it is to become such a world faith, must lose its western "provincialness" of appeal, and must show Christendom to be a "colony of heaven, not of the white race...
...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...