Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin

Challanged Konrad Raiser on his view of the mission of the World Council of Churches as it developed in the 1990s. Whereas Newbigin supported the classical eumenical theology, a Christocentric focus, Raiser sought to avoid it,  by following an earthly Jesus who ministers to needs of the contemporary world, using a "Trinitaristic" paradigm as more relevant for the spiritualistic movements  in the contempary world. In contrast, Newbigin believed that thinking about God and His mission must start with Jesus Christ and the atonement, that in Jesus Christ, God has revealed and accomplished the end of universal history, and it is only from this starting point that all missions of the church should move forward.

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Garcia-Rivera,Alejandro