Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...total event of Christ" Newbigin stated, men were--and are--confronted with a demand over and above the demands of men. Because this demand is uniquely universal and significant, the Christian is justified in singling out the Christ event as the one basis for a modern world faith...
...second William Belden Noble Lecture, Reverend Newbigin disputed three solutions to the problem of finding a modern world faith...
...second argument was with Toynbee, who classifies religions into higher and lower categories. Toynbee stands above faith and accuses Christianity and Christians of pride because they will not admit that their religion's major ideas, even the concept of divine self-sacrifice, are to be found in other world religions. Newbigin asked what Toynbee's criterion of judgment could be; how by setting himself above all religions he can have standards by which to criticize them...
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...