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Africans and Asians tend to consider not only missions but the local churches they have produced as centers and agents of Western culture and ideology if not of direct political propaganda. | tend | {
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Africans and Asians tend to consider not only missions but the local churches they have produced as centers and agents of Western culture and ideology if not of direct political propaganda. | consider | {
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Africans and Asians tend to consider not only missions but the local churches they have produced as centers and agents of Western culture and ideology if not of direct political propaganda. | produced | {
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The people hardest hit by this suspicion are, of course, Christians on the mainland of China. | hit | {
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The people hardest hit by this suspicion are, of course, Christians on the mainland of China. | are | {
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But the problem extends elsewhere. | extends | {
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For example, in Burma and Ceylon many Buddhists argue that Buddhism ought to be the official state religion. | argue | {
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For example, in Burma and Ceylon many Buddhists argue that Buddhism ought to be the official state religion. | be | {
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In 1960 Ceylon nationalized its sectarian - preponderantly Christian - schools, to the rejoicing of most of its 7000000 Buddhists and the lament of its 800000 Roman Catholics. | nationalized | {
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Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone. | imposed | {
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Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone. | expected | {
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Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone. | seek | {
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Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone. | making for | {
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Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone. | is | {
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The progressive closing of Afro-Asian ears to the Christian message is epitomized in a conversation I had three years ago while flying from Jerusalem to Cairo. | epitomized | {
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The progressive closing of Afro-Asian ears to the Christian message is epitomized in a conversation I had three years ago while flying from Jerusalem to Cairo. | flying | {
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I was seated next to the director of the Seventh Day Adventists ' world radio program. | was | {
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He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them. | said | {
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He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them. | been | {
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He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them. | lacked | {
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He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them. | contract | {
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After returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available. | returning | {
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After returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available. | raising | {
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After returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available. | discovered | {
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After returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available. | were | {
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It was not that they had been contracted for during the interval ; they simply could no longer be purchased for missionary purposes. | contracted | {
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It was not that they had been contracted for during the interval ; they simply could no longer be purchased for missionary purposes. | purchased | {
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It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment. | is | {
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It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment. | add | {
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It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment. | work | {
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It is not unfair to add on the other side that the crude and almost vitriolic approach of certain fundamentalist sects toward the cultures and religions among which they work has contributed measurably to this heightening of anti-Christian sentiment. | contributed | {
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Ironically, these are the groups which have doubled or tripled their missionary efforts since World War 2,, while the more established denominations are barely maintaining pre-war staffs. | are | {
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Ironically, these are the groups which have doubled or tripled their missionary efforts since World War 2,, while the more established denominations are barely maintaining pre-war staffs. | doubled | {
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Ironically, these are the groups which have doubled or tripled their missionary efforts since World War 2,, while the more established denominations are barely maintaining pre-war staffs. | tripled | {
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Ironically, these are the groups which have doubled or tripled their missionary efforts since World War 2,, while the more established denominations are barely maintaining pre-war staffs. | maintaining | {
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Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves. | emphasized | {
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Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves. | raised | {
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Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves. | is | {
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Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves. | widened | {
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The partition of India has hardly improved relations between Hindus and Muslims ; neither has the establishment of the State of Israel fostered harmony between Muslims and Jews. | improved | {
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The partition of India has hardly improved relations between Hindus and Muslims ; neither has the establishment of the State of Israel fostered harmony between Muslims and Jews. | fostered | {
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I turn finally to several theological developments. | turn | {
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Theocracy reconsidered. | reconsidered | {
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The modern world has been marked by progressive disaffection with claims to divine sanction for the state, whatever its political form. | marked | {
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The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''. | was | {
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The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''. | providing | {
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The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''. | make | {
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The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''. | respecting | {
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The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''. | prohibiting | {
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One of our foremost jurists, David Dudley Field, has gone so far as to call this provision `` the greatest achievement ever made in the course of human history ''. | call | {
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One of our foremost jurists, David Dudley Field, has gone so far as to call this provision `` the greatest achievement ever made in the course of human history ''. | made | {
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The trend throughout the world 's religions has been toward a recognition of at least the practical validity of this constitutional enactment. | been | {
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Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation. | created | {
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Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation. | took over | {
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Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation. | directed | {
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Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation. | think | {
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`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''? | reports | {
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`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''? | asking | {
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`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''? | demanding | {
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`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''? | say | {
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`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''? | is | {
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The current regime of President Mohammad Ayub Khan is determinedly secular. | is | {
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And while the nation was formerly named `` The Islamic Republic of Pakistan '', it is now simply `` The Republic of Pakistan ''. | named | {
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Comparable trends can be noted elsewhere. | noted | {
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The new regime in Turkey is intentionally less Muslim than its predecessor. | is | {
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The religious parties in Israel have experienced a great loss of prestige in recent months. | experienced | {
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During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis - the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants - it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties. | passing | {
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During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis - the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants - it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties. | felt | {
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During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis - the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants - it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties. | served | {
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During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis - the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants - it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties. | yield | {
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Now that Israel enjoys relative prosperity and a reduction of tensions, the secularists are less disposed to compromise. | enjoys | {
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Now that Israel enjoys relative prosperity and a reduction of tensions, the secularists are less disposed to compromise. | are | {
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Now that Israel enjoys relative prosperity and a reduction of tensions, the secularists are less disposed to compromise. | compromise | {
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And in this country Gustave Weigel 's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state. | served | {
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And in this country Gustave Weigel 's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state. | provide | {
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The failure at that time of the Puerto Rican bishops to control the votes of their people added a ring of good sense to Father Weigel 's theological argument. | control | {
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The failure at that time of the Puerto Rican bishops to control the votes of their people added a ring of good sense to Father Weigel 's theological argument. | added | {
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Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible - in a word, too human - to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine. | seems | {
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Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible - in a word, too human - to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine. | be | {
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Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible - in a word, too human - to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine. | are | {
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Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible - in a word, too human - to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine. | warrant | {
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Everywhere there seems to be a growing recognition of the fact that governments and religious institutions alike are too fallible and corruptible - in a word, too human - to warrant any claim of maintaining partnership with the divine. | maintaining | {
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Salvation reconsidered. | reconsidered | {
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My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them. | went | {
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My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them. | responded | {
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My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them. | held | {
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My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them. | announced | {
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My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them. | were | {
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My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them. | saving | {
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That mention of this should bring smiles to our lips today is as clear an indication as we could wish of the extent to which attitudes have changed. | bring | {
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That mention of this should bring smiles to our lips today is as clear an indication as we could wish of the extent to which attitudes have changed. | is | {
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That mention of this should bring smiles to our lips today is as clear an indication as we could wish of the extent to which attitudes have changed. | wish | {
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That mention of this should bring smiles to our lips today is as clear an indication as we could wish of the extent to which attitudes have changed. | changed | {
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I do not mean to imply that Christians have adopted the liberal assumption, so prevalent in Hinduism, that all religions are merely different paths to the same summit. | mean | {
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I do not mean to imply that Christians have adopted the liberal assumption, so prevalent in Hinduism, that all religions are merely different paths to the same summit. | imply | {
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I do not mean to imply that Christians have adopted the liberal assumption, so prevalent in Hinduism, that all religions are merely different paths to the same summit. | adopted | {
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I do not mean to imply that Christians have adopted the liberal assumption, so prevalent in Hinduism, that all religions are merely different paths to the same summit. | are | {
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Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''. | reflects | {
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Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''. | says | {
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Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''. | claim | {
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