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...that the future belongs to them, several suggested that the Christian missionaries begin to move the other way-from East to West. "An Asian Christian who has lived among Buddhists would be much more useful than American ministers," argued Ceylon's Dr. Daniel T. ("D.T.") Niles. Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India told the Assembly that he hoped "that the churchmen of Asia and Africa, having studied the spiritual situation of some of the older churches, will be moved to send missionaries to Europe and America to make the Gospel credible to the pagan masses...
...delegates, observers, staff members and special guests (plus 275 newsmen) met in a world unused to organized religion. A memorandum prepared by General Secretary Visser 't Hooft and Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India reminded them that the mysterious East was accustomed to a different brand of holy man. "To go to the capital city of India and proclaim that Jesus Christ is the light of the world is a daring action," the memo noted. "It is difficult for most people in India to take seriously a claim to religious insight which is not accompanied...
...meetings and numerous consultations. Last week the onetime missionary movement, now engaged in a vast handover to "younger" (indigenous) churches (TIME cover, April 13. 1960), became the World Council's Division of World Mission and Evangelism, under the leadership of one of Christendom's ablest ecumenists, Bishop Newbigin, who is 51, a onetime Presbyterian missionary, now the inspiring leader of the 14-year-old Church of South India...
...formal action by the W.C.C. General Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. Nevertheless, the friendly offices of pro-western Orthodox delegates made many Protestants more tolerant of Orthodoxy's ancient position. "It's a miracle that the Greek Church exists at all," said British-born Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India. "It's only been possible by a barnacle-like adhesion to what they have...
...programs of technical advancement by rejecting Christianity; and in the process they had to set up new absolutes. In Russia the idea of the Kingdom of God was transformed into the vision of the classless society; Japan instituted emperor-worship and the messianic mission of the Japanese people. Bishop Newbigin believes that technical culture is not religiously neutral. If it does not keep its roots in the Christian faith, it will have to find a new absolute, and will become demonic...