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...their part, several Lutheran churches are in process of a pronounced return to their original liturgy, after having suffered for two centuries an impoverishment comparable to that of the Calvinist churches. ... In Calvinist circles in France and Switzerland, among many young pastors, among students of theology and influential laymen, the legitimacy of liturgy in itself is no longer being argued, as it was before...
This bushy-browed, energetic man of 56 does not look like the popular picture of the dour theologian-much less like a neo-Calvinist theologian. But among top prophets of neo-orthodoxy's contemporary "theology of crisis," Dr. Emil Brunner ranks second only to his fellow Swiss, Karl Earth...
...London's respectable Earl's Court, he and Mrs. Potter ate breakfast, alone, in absolute silence. Then Mr. Potter went to his club. At 1 o'clock, a small cutlet and some rice pudding went up to the nursery by the back stairs. Then a Calvinist nurse named McKenzie came and took little Beatrix for a good walk...
Unmindful of Appomattox, the Baptists have been content to remain divided, because: 1) Southern Baptists are generally more Calvinist-i.e., hard-shelled-than the Northern variety; 2) basic Baptist policy abhors organization and church discipline. Baptists will cautiously unite to form a "conference," but not a Church. "Messengers" rather than delegates attend the conventions, which make no rules or decisions that might hobble the independence of each local congregation. (For similar reasons, the Southern Baptist Convention is the biggest Protestant group that refuses to join the Federal Council of Churches...
...pray for peace instead of victory, aided the Jews, consequently kept themselves in constant hot water with the Nazis. In this tough nucleus Barth saw hope for the rebirth of German Christianity. The new, united Evangelical Church, formed last August at the Treysa conference, was a good beginning. But Calvinist Barth looked with less favor on those conservative churchmen who were more interested in getting back to the good old pre-Hitler days by safeguarding hierarchical arrangements and hoary institutions. German churches, he said, could retain their freedom in the new social democracy not by turning back to the past...