Word: barthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his aerie in Switzerland, hawk-eyed Karl Barth, 72, Europe's most prestigious Protestant theologian, peers coolly at the Christian West. Last week U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, 66, glared right back. In the Christian Century, Niebuhr sharply answered Barth's latest anti-West pronouncement-a 45-page pamphlet addressed to an anonymous pastor in East Germany who had asked for spiritual guidance...
...Barthélémy Boganda, 48, stoutish Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic. It is a land of which it is said that the majority live in the Stone Age, and the advanced people live in the Middle Ages. The son of a witch doctor who claimed to have eaten human flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases...
...Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed moneyman, who virtually ran France. At 19, Germaine was married off to Sweden's Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along...
...address on Christ and the law, the Rev. Markus Barth, son of Swiss Theologian Karl Barth and a member of Chicago University's Federated Theological Faculty, developed the same theme. "Lawyers feel much more exposed to a conflict of conscience than most other people," he said. Some try to "keep their hands clean by becoming office lawyers," in hopes of escaping the "dirty work that might involve their own consciences." But "since Christ interceded for sinners," said Earth, "Christian lawyers therefore obey Christ's fulfilled law by pleading for sinners-that they may live and receive what...
...Barth has a good ear for the sort of psychologizing claptrap that passes for conversation in some circles. The earnest talk of the three academic friends is a comedy of manners in itself-almost on the level of Mary (The Groves of Academe) McCarthy or Randall (Pictures from an Institution) Jarrell. Barth is clearly one of the more interesting of younger U.S. writers and he has produced that rarity of U.S. letters-a true novel of ideas...