Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a new confidence in the U.S., born of the harvest and nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
Congratulations on your vivid report of the Amsterdam Conference as "No Pentecost" [TIME, Sept...
...deepest of these problems was at the bottom of the conflict at Amsterdam -the problem of the Nature and Destiny of Man. Every religion divides along two poles. For the one, man is a worm. For the other, man is "a little lower than the angels...
Paradoxically, this is due to the fact that TIME'S correspondent at Amsterdam brought to the assembly a preconception of what he loped for from it which was at variance with, and in one sense, loftier than, what either he or the delegates had a right to expect. He wanted a "Pentecost," that is, a visitation of the Holy Spirit like that described in Acts 2:7-11. The fact that no such spectacular miracle occurred does not necessarily mean that the Holy Spirit was not present. For the definitive Christian conception of the Holy Spirit is that...
...American press, including TIME, has headlined contradictory attitudes toward the East-West confrontation, suggesting that the assembly's discussions reproduced the shocking scenes of United Nations debates. It would be difficult to conjure up a picture more completely at variance with the facts. At Amsterdam, it was at every point a discussion "within the family," carried on by Christians and friends who recognized and treated one another always as such. Even the divergence in definition of "church" to which TIME calls attention was merely a recording of an old and familiar difference, far less significant than the wholly unforeseen...