Word: barth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with five minutes of silent thought. Says Hahn: No intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...
...visit to her Seattle cousin gave her plenty to talk about. "Why," said she, "you'd think to see [Americans] in the movies they lived in tiled bathrooms and took a barth every mornin'. Not that I'm against it ... I do like to 'ave a good 'ot soak once in a while, after cleanin' out the 'en 'ouse. . . . But when you get there, they're jest ordinary folks like us. ... When you see 'em, you like 'em. Wot's more, they like...
...Kierkegaard's 100-year-old philosophy seems well fitted to these days. It is basic to the modern Protestant "crisis theology" of Karl Barth; its influence is strong on the great Spanish Catholic philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno; it is the groundwork for France's atheistic, postliberation fad of "existentialism." Protestants, Catholics and atheists who would like to sample the thought of the great Dane without reading all 20 translated volumes should welcome last week's publication of A Kierkegaard Anthology, edited by youthful (33) Kierkegaard- enthusiast Robert Bretall (Princeton University...
Hope for Tomorrow. The most encouraging sign for Christian Germany, said Barth, had been the stiff-necked resistance of the Confessional Church leaders who stubbornly continued throughout the war to pray for peace instead of victory, aided the Jews, consequently kept themselves in constant hot water with the Nazis. In this tough nucleus Barth saw hope for the rebirth of German Christianity. The new, united Evangelical Church, formed last August at the Treysa conference, was a good beginning. But Calvinist Barth looked with less favor on those conservative churchmen who were more interested in getting back to the good...
...purely temporal aspects of Germany's road back, Theologian Barth also had ideas. From TIME's correspondent in Switzerland came cabled excerpts from the latest Barth brochure, How to Cure the Germans. Excerpts...