Word: newbigin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After concluding his third lecture by discoursing on the doctrine of Election, The Right Reverend J. A. Lesslie Newbigin discussed in the main body of last night's lecture the content of Christ's revelation...
...Newbigin asserted that certain metaphysical and ethical problems inherent in the Election doctrine make it offensive to Christians. The concept of the People of God is not an "eschatological expectation," he explained, but the people are the new humanity, the people whose Church is the clue to the meaning of world history...
...Christians may presume to teach the gospel to non-Christians who may be of greater moral and spiritual eminence was a problem discussed by The Right Reverend Dr. J. E. Lesslie Newbigin in last night's third William Belden Noble lecture at Memorial Church...
...Christian authority to teach the gospel, Newbigin declared, derives from the fact that the "total event of Christ" was indeed an event, on whose reality all men were agreed, and was not merely a teaching or a philosophy. Modern Christians may teach greater men than themselves for the same reason that the rabble of the time could enter heaven before their greater contemporaries--because the established religious men of the day were concerned with their own self-righteousness. In the "total event of Christ" Newbigin stated, men were--and are--confronted with a demand over and above the demands...
...Newbigin discussed two of the three aspects of the "total event of Christ"--the doctrines of Creation and of Sin. Discussion of the third, the doctrine of Election, concerning the condition of Christian unity, was postponed last night because of time considerations and will precede tonight's lecture