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The central question in the ecumenical debate is this: what is the nature of the Church? Lesslie Newbigin sketches the present context of the discussion and touches on the Biblical meaning of the word “Church.” He then presents the Protestant, Catholic, and Pentecostal answers to this question. Ultimately, he argues that the Church is at once eschatological and missionary—and both aspects imply...

has been called ‘indiscriminate baptism’ is one element in the present phase of that task. But there is a further reason for the fact that the breakdown of Christendom has placed the doctrine of the Church in the centre of our thinking. One phase of that breakdown has been the dissolution of the ties winch bound men and women to the natural communities of family, village, or working group, to which they had belonged. I do not need to labour this point, which is the constant refrain of the social
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