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Lesslie Newbigin : Biography and Legacy.

Once upon a time, all the people of the world belonged to a religion.

Missionary, Missiologist and Ecumenist. He returned to Cambridge in to train for ministry at Westminster College and in July he was ordained by the Presbytery of Edinburgh to work as a Church of Scotland missionary stationed in Madras, India. One month later, he married SCM colleague Helen Henderson, and together they set off for India where they lived for decades and together had one son and three daughters.

Newbigin took quickly to the native Tamil language, and began his work as a village evangelist. He became troubled by the competing denominational missions that often resulted in a separation of converts by caste.

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He saw this as a public contradiction to the gospel of reconciliation, and a primary obstacle to missionary work. In response, Newbigin became one of the key architects seeking the local organic reunion of the church. On August 15, , India gained its independence from Britain. A month later, on September 27, the Church of South India was founded, which brought Congregational, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian denominations into organic union.