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...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
...Newbigin's third opponent was the philosopher Hocking, who seeks to reduce the living Christian faith to a set of academic ideas. In his concept of the confluence of all religions into one main stream, Hocking submerges the factual basis of Christian belief. "Christianity isn't views, it's news," stated Newbigin...
...Monday's issue Rev. Newbigin was mistakenly reported to have called for a return to a cyclical historical concept. It was the opposite idea, that of purposive change, which he declared based in the Christian faith and grounded in Western culture. The CRIMSON regrets the error...