Word: barthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barth's Finger. "I was thinking about infinity," says Paul Tillich, "at the age of eight." Until his 305 Tillich performed his thinking along orthodox and unspectacular lines, reflecting his strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...
Latest of these is Paul Barth of Gallatin Hall, who reported the theft of $103 from the clothes of his roommate and friends last night. Barth said the door of his room was open while he sat in the courtyard nearby, but he saw no one enter or leave...
...Temptation. Barth has insisted that Communism presents a far different problem to Christianity than did Naziism (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948). To support Naziism, he said, was a "temptation" for Christians; the Nazis invited support with a fake veneer of Christianity. But since the Communists are frankly opposed to religion, and Christians are hardly tempted to endorse Communism, Barth feels that the church is not obliged to add its voice to the anti-Communist denunciations of politicians...
Like any orthodox Christian, Hauge agrees with Barth that no historical revolution can be compared to that brought to mankind by Jesus Christ. But he points out that the historical "decisiveness of Christ ought not to be proclaimed in such a way that all other events and situations are stripped of significance. To view change in the light of eternity is dangerous if it issues in the belief that all state orders are equally good. The judgment of Christ does not mean a general leveling of all human relationships...