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“Religion is much too great and permanent an element in human experience to be swept out of sight,” writes Lesslie Newbigin. “I want to ask what must be the religion of a Christian who accepts the process of secularization and lives fully in the kind of world into which God has led us.” His answer involves relating the universal fact of secularization to the biblical picture of the nature and...

The most significant fact about the time in which we are living is that it is a time in which a single movement of secularization is bringing the peoples of all continents into its sweep. So large a generalization will obviously call for qualifications in detail, but I hope to be allowed to take it as our starting-point. Let me speak for a moment of the two aspects under which one may regard this single movement—as unification, and
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