Word: calvinism
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...mean: 615 out of a possible 800). More decisive were written essays and proof of intellectual curiosity. Instead of summer loafing, next fall's incoming freshmen were busy last week perusing a list of prescribed books, from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way to Western Civilization and Calvin Hall's A Primer of Freudian Psychology to William Golding's Lord of the Flies...
...Protestants have no reason to gloat over the record of Roman Catholic intolerance. The Reformation brought freedom back to Christianity-but the Reformers seldom permitted this freedom to those who disagreed with them. Martin Luther argued that it was just for civil authorities to kill and exile the Anabaptists. Calvin actively worked for the condemnation and death of Michael Servetus, a brilliant Spanish physician whose denial of belief in the Trinity made him the first modern Unitarian. Both Catholics and Protestants must share the blame for what Nigg calls "one of the most shocking periods in the history of Christianity...
Karl Barth must believe in universal salvation if he thinks John Calvin is in Heaven after Calvin's somewhat un-Christian sentencing of Michael Servetus to be burned alive...
...orthodox dogma that Barth has tried to set aright-much to the dismay of other theologians in the Reformed Church -is the best-known and gloomiest of Calvinist tenets: predestination. In his Institutes, Calvin argued that God has already determined both those who will be saved at the Last Judgment and those who will suffer the eternal pangs of Hell. Barth says that this belief does not pay sufficient heed to the fact that Christ's death was intended for all men: Man's ultimate fate is shrouded in mystery, but Barth believes that Christ, the loving Judge...
...MUSIC: If I ever go to heaven, I would first inquire about Mozart, and only then about Augustine. Thomas, Luther, Calvin and Schleiermacher...