Description:Chapters: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bishop James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 30 January 1998) was a Church of Scotland missionary serving in the former Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India, who became a Christian theologian and bishop involved in missiology, ecumenism, and the Gospel and Our Culture Movement. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newbigin's schooling largely took place in Leighton Park, the Quaker public boarding school in Reading, Berkshire. He went to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1928. On qualifying, he moved to Glasgow to work with the Student Christian Movement (SCM) in 1931. He returned to Cambridge in 1933 to train for the ministry at Westminster College, and in July 1936 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh to work as a Church of Scotland missionary at the Madras Mission. He was married to Helen Henderson a month later, and they set off for India in September 1936. In time they had one son and three daughters. He also had a sister, Frances, who was a regular worshipper at Jesmond URC (formerly Presbyterian), Newcastle upon Tyne, in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. In 1947, the fledgling Church of South India, an ecumenical church formed from several Protestant churches, appointed him as one of their first bishops in the Diocese of Madurai Ramnad a surprising career path for a Presbyterian minister. In 1959 he became the General Secretary of the International Missionary Council and oversaw its integration with the World Council of Churches, of which he became Associate General Secretary. He remained in Geneva until 1965, when he returned to India as Bishop of Madras, where he s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=726326We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bishops of Madras: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras. To get started finding Bishops of Madras: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Bishops of Madras: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras
Description: Chapters: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bishop James Edward Lesslie Newbigin (8 December 1909 30 January 1998) was a Church of Scotland missionary serving in the former Madras State (now Tamil Nadu), India, who became a Christian theologian and bishop involved in missiology, ecumenism, and the Gospel and Our Culture Movement. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newbigin's schooling largely took place in Leighton Park, the Quaker public boarding school in Reading, Berkshire. He went to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1928. On qualifying, he moved to Glasgow to work with the Student Christian Movement (SCM) in 1931. He returned to Cambridge in 1933 to train for the ministry at Westminster College, and in July 1936 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh to work as a Church of Scotland missionary at the Madras Mission. He was married to Helen Henderson a month later, and they set off for India in September 1936. In time they had one son and three daughters. He also had a sister, Frances, who was a regular worshipper at Jesmond URC (formerly Presbyterian), Newcastle upon Tyne, in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. In 1947, the fledgling Church of South India, an ecumenical church formed from several Protestant churches, appointed him as one of their first bishops in the Diocese of Madurai Ramnad a surprising career path for a Presbyterian minister. In 1959 he became the General Secretary of the International Missionary Council and oversaw its integration with the World Council of Churches, of which he became Associate General Secretary. He remained in Geneva until 1965, when he returned to India as Bishop of Madras, where he s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=726326We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Bishops of Madras: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras. To get started finding Bishops of Madras: Lesslie Newbigin, Edward Harry Mansfield Waller, Arthur Michael Hollis, Henry Whitehead, Frederick Gell, Bishop of Madras, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.