Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday, at the end of an enviable feat of ecclesiastical commuting, The Right Reverend J. E. Lesslie Newbigin, Bishop of Madura and Ramnad, will have preached at Cambridge University, after delivering the William Belden Noble Lectures and last Sunday's sermon at Memorial Church...
...seven "foreign" bishops of the Unitd Church of South India...
...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...
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...
...William Belden Noble Lecturer has already considered the doctrine of Creation and of Sin, in his lecture series at Memorial Church...