Word: calvinists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theology is currently not so dead as it was a decade ago, and in gloomy, depressed Europe it is actually alive. Who are its leaders? Most thoughtful Europeans know of Lecerf the French neo-Calvinist, Heim the Lutheran. But all are aware of Karl Barth, 45, Swiss founder of a potent Christian philosophy...
...years ago the grey little city of Paisley, seven miles outside of Glasgow, was world famed because beauties who could not afford real Cashmere shawls draped their drooping shoulders with "Paisley shawls" of soft wool, printed by Scots with Indian designs. Ladies no longer wear shawls. Paisley's Calvinist spinners make a modest living today spinning cotton thread...