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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...

are. But perhaps the most important thing about the Constitution of that Church is the explicit confession that the Church is not what it ought to be. I should like to quote here some sentences from the statement prepared by the Church of South India for the Lund Conference: ‘Probably no Church is as static as its fundamental documents suggest, but the Church of South India has the idea of development written into its very constitution. That constitution is explicitly a starting point; it does not
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