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...theological treatise or a scientific monograph. To throw out the missing-link evolutionary theory and replace it with a more modern concept (based on an archaeological discovery in 1975 and supported by 3 million critical years of missing evidence) is even more ludicrous than to ask a non-Biblicist to believe the Genesis account of creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...Niebuhr, once something of a follower, dismissed Barth's politics as naive and his theology as suitable only for catacomb Christianity. Other contemporary theologians charged that Barth paid too little attention to the role of history and sociology in the development of Christianity and that he spoke a Biblicist language to modern men crying for a fresher mode of revelation. Yet even his critics had to acknowledge that theology could never be the same again. "He is a mountain," admitted Dr. Benjamin Reist of San Francisco Seminary. "To get beyond him you have to climb over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Death of Two Extraordinary Christians | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Oxford Bible approved for Catholics leaves the RSV text and footnotes unchanged; instead, two Catholic scholars-Jesuit Biblicist W. Van Etten Casey of Holy Cross and Father Philip King of St. John's Seminary in Boston-merely made a few additions to the Oxford annotations that were approved by the Bible's Protestant editors. One note, for example, says that according to Catholic doctrine the "brothers" of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels were really other relatives and points out that in Semitic usage the word encompasses a wide variety of blood relations. Another addition explains that the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: One for All at Last | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Brothers on a Plank. Samsonite still bears the image of Biblicist Jesse Shwayder, who founded it in 1910 with $3,500. He brought his four brothers into the firm, introduced plywood-frame luggage and emphasized its strength with advertising that pictured the five Shwayder brothers standing on a plank supported only by a piece of their luggage. Shwayder retired in 1962, turned over control of the family-owned corporation to his son King David Shwayder and two able sons-in-law. Now 83, he still calls to offer them ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: In the Bag | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

Barth has been variously damned as a heretic, a narrow-minded Biblicist, and an atheist in disguise-and praised as the most creative Protestant theologian since John Calvin. President James McCord of Princeton

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witness to an Ancient Truth | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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