Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second William Belden Noble Lecture, Reverend Newbigin disputed three solutions to the problem of finding a modern world faith...
...first solution considered was that of the modern Hindu mystics, represented by the Indian philosopher Radhakrishnan, who seeks to reduce all religious concepts to a common denominator of mystical truth. But in retracting his mind from all contact wtih his senses, the Hindu fails to extract the essence of all religion, and instead attempts to find the way to essential truth through his mystical vision. Newbigin declared that men are too much caught in the concentration of life to avoid its problems by inward contemplation...
...finally, Falstaff left. He had dug deep-seeking dry-rot in his soul's garden and found nothing, so he changed scenes, joined the two percent, went abroad. And there he is today, still delightfully happy, ever hunting misfortune, bearing always the curse of the modern Cain--a horrible isolation in his happiness...
...lecturer, Bishop of Madura and Ramnad, further observed that modern western society cannot have the cyclical, chronological viewpoint found in the East. He cited his own country, India, as an example: time there is observed in sixty year cycles, with no distinction of progress from one cycle to the next...
...modern process of purposeful change is "demonic," even though it is a "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...