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...impossible. I like the 12 and 13 year-olds best. They have the intelligence of adults without their blocks and fears."); the New York City school system; the narrowness of most Ph.D. research; the Harvard of 1961 ("in the old days they used to work with a real Calvinist seal...
...chance of stopping the bureaucrat. And guess who that lucky dog would be? The "organization man"-the man in the image of Dr. Blake. Our appeal to sola scriptura was given the heave ho. But without sola scriptura, you simply cannot be Protestant at all, much less Calvinist...
...Great Awakening" of colonial days, it was the "Old Side" v. the "New Side," and Jonathan Edwards bringing sinners to their trembling knees with detailed word pictures of hell. Edwards and his followers did much to erode Calvinist determinism by interpreting Adam's fall as not laying irremediable guilt upon man, but only an inclination to sin. After the Revolutionary War, it was the "Old School" and the "New School," which subordinated the sterner tenets of the reformed faith to the idea of God's love. The liberalizers won out in the '20s in a battle...
Madmen! He built a studio and house for his friend, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, which Lipchitz recalls somewhat plaintively as "a good studio, but he would not allow me to put any of mv sculptures along the walls. He was such a Calvinist in those days." He managed to put up a model Workers' City near Bordeaux, but the buildings so offended the local authorities that they refused to furnish them with water for six years. In 1927 Corbu, with his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret, submitted a plan for the League of Nations. As he bitterly wrote...
Although the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church has shown increasing signs of opposition to the government, it was the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches in South Africa that took the lead in fighting apartheid. But last week a major segment of the Dutch Reformed Church expressed aloud its discontent with South Africa's increasingly harsh racial policies...