Word: newbigin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...