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...Bishop Newbigin, who has spent twenty-two years in India as a missionary, and has thought deeply about the meaning of his experiences, dealt with massive tidal movements of society in our time, only one of which is the repudiation, implicit or explicit, of the Christian faith by most members of western society. This declaration, on which you have based your headline and lead sentence, can be understood only in the context of the entire lecture. Further, that a Harvard reporter can state in one paragraph, "He called for a return to a cyclical religion," and two paragraphs later report...
Contrary to the impression given by your article, Bishop Newbigin's lecture was carefully outlined and followed a logical progression. He began by considering the ending of the centuries-old movement of western culture into the rest of the world, referring most of his remarks to India, the country he knows so well. The eastern cultures have now asumed the western, and are facing the world with a new serenity and sureness of their own position. Nehru, for instance, is now saying that all things are ours, whether ancient or modern, eastern or western...
...last of five lectures on the subject A Faith for Our World, Newbigin related the China problem to Arnold Toynbee's criticisms of the Church. Newbigin agreed with one point of Toynbee's: That Christianity, it it is to become such a world faith, must lose its western "provincialness" of appeal, and must show Christendom to be a "colony of heaven, not of the white race...
...next missionary step, Newbigin declared, is a centralization of the Christian Church councils on a world-wide basis, a pooling of resources, and assistance in a system of U.N.-like cooperation...
...Cooperation is the necessary starting point, but it cannot be considered the goal," Newbigin continued. The Christian unity, the "binding in Christ," makes manifest a total commitment that makes it impossible to evade the question of full Church unity throughout the world. Newbigin strongly asserted the imminence of the problem and the importance of its solution. "The issue of Church unity," Newbigin concluded, "must be treated as an issue not for tomorrow, but for today...