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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the length 85 breadth of Christendom, the echoes of the Amsterdam conference still roll. No voice raised in that assembly of the World Council of Churches was more challenging to modern Christians than that of the great Swiss theologian, Karl Barth. TIME has already reported (Sept. 13) the impact of his address on the U.S. delegates, many of whom criticized Barth as advocating a passive "let-God-do-it" approach to the problems of our time. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked Earth's speech as offering "a too simple and premature escape from the trials . . . duties and tragic choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Has Done It | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...Amsterdam last summer, when Protestantism foregathered at the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), a notable divergence in point of view between the U.S. and Europe was quickly apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Crown Without a Cross? | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...bearlike Karl Barth of Basel, Switzerland, had jolted the Amsterdam delegates with a speech on the text: Take counsel together and it shall come to naught . . . for God is with us! (Isaiah 8:10). Perhaps, he said, the much-regretted absence of either Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox delegates was God's doing: "I propose that we should now praise and thank God, that it pleases Him to stand so clearly in the way of our plans." Barth warned the churchmen that their job was to bear witness to the Gospel -not to presume to the world-saving functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Crown Without a Cross? | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Hortons were a team at this summer's Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam (Miss Mac was one of the few women speakers there) and the trip helped decide her to go into religious work, assisting her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Mac Steps Down | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Seven thousand people stayed through a violent cloudburst at Auburn, Republican Congressman John Taber's home town. They cheered lustily as Harry Truman berated Taber for using "a butcher knife and a saber and a meat ax . . . on every forward-looking program . . ." There were more crowds at Schenectady, Amsterdam, Little Falls, Utica, Rome, Oneida, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Geneva, Rochester, and Buffalo. And there would be great crowds again this week as the President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon. But the President himself, with a peculiar combination of frankness and naiveté, offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Why They Came Out | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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