Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nubile of U. S. churches is the Presbyterian. According to a recent survey, most churchgoers, if they had to merge, would pick the Presbyterians. Some reasons for this popularity: Presbyterianism stands midway between the episcopal and the congregational systems of church government; its form of worship is simple; its Calvinist doctrines have progressively broadened...
...tomorrow, for Harvard has had a parental interest in Yale for a good long while. When at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Apleys and Aldens of New England felt that theologically Harvard was slipping into radical sloughs, they realized a perennial dream for a college in Calvinist Connecticut. The Rev. Pierpont, Class of 1681, obtained a charter, and the Rev. Pierson, Class of 1668, was chosen rector. In 1716 the "Collegiate School of Connecticut" was permanently established in New Haven, and at the suggestion of Cotton Mather, another Harvard man, it received the name of Elihu Yale...
...onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk by opening a saloon, vents her disgust on a pious daughter-in-law by spoiling her grandson Tjerk. Best part of the story pictures Tjerk's rebellious boyhood, his adventures with his grandmother, the hell-raising activities of his brothers, family quarrels, a ceaseless round of weddings and funerals...
...theologian's theologian, one of the most famed in the world, is Dr. Karl Barth. Exiled three years ago from Germany, his adopted land and spiritual home, he has settled in Switzerland, his birthplace. U. S. Protestants have been slow to approve and understand this Calvinist, although. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the ablest of Protestant theologians, has been influenced by him. and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian stronghold, has shown leanings toward Barthianism. Of European conditions upon which Barthianism battens. Manhattan clergymen lately were given a vivid picture of Dr. Adolf Keller, Swiss colleague of Dr. Barth. Declaring...
...size from one with 827 adherents to many which claim only one worshipper apiece. Among the latter group are to be found a good assortment of rare creeds and unusual cults. Right in our midst there are a proud and effulgent sun-worshipper, a Taoist, a Shintoist, a Calvinist of Science, a Swedenborgian, and representatives of the Covenant Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church...