Word: barthe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kitchen Remainder. Sandy-haired Floyd Bostwick Odium, who does not like to be called freckled, went angling again last week with his fast-growing Atlas Corp. He offered Atlas shares in exchange for notes in Pick Barth Holding Corp., onetime big investor in Albert Pick & Co., a leading kitchen equipment concern. The offer was not made because Mr. Odium wanted Atlas to invest in the kitchen business, but because Pick Barth Holding will probably be reorganized, hence its noteholders will control 500,000 shares of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.. biggest of assets left in Pick Earth's treasury...
...theology is currently not so dead as it was a decade ago, and in gloomy, depressed Europe it is actually alive. Who are its leaders? Most thoughtful Europeans know of Lecerf the French neo-Calvinist, Heim the Lutheran. But all are aware of Karl Barth, 45, Swiss founder of a potent Christian philosophy...
Before the War, Karl Barth preached in the German Reformed Church. Like his professor-father he is an eminent theologian. His theology, now called Barthianism, is pessimistic, dogmatic. It offers the dun-colored thesis that Man is immoral, selfish, bound to be an "unprofitable servant" to the end. Man achieves nothing, will be saved only by grace and belief in the "absolute otherness of God." Barthianism rejects Modernism in so far as Modernism throws out too much of the Bible, too much of God. Fundamentalism also is rejected insofar as it is hampered by the Bible...
...blackness of spiritual despair Theologian Barth-now married and professor of theology at the University of Bonn-has attracted an immense following. Like a wan light amid disillusion and doubt, Barthianism nourishes in German and Swiss universities. Religious socialists join in, go on working for social betterment although it will not change mankind. Man achieves nothing. Christian Philosopher Barth, thin, stooped, slightly weak-eyed but rather jolly, does not evangelize. He will not come to the U. S. because the U. S. is too worldly. Nevertheless his U. S. admirers-who are many-wish he would come because they believe...
...They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...