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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...
...story of Duster's dismissal from the College has generally been related as an instance of Puritan bigotry and intolerance. Dunster, since his arrival, had been an orthodox Calvinist and member of the Cambridge Church but by careful study he reached the conclusion, some time in 1653, that the baptism of infants was unauthorized by scripture. Accordingly he refused to present for baptism his son who was horn in the fall of that year. The news that President Dunster had become a Baptist created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today...
Stolid square-beamed Dutch politicians became heatedly vocal last week over an amendment to the budget passed by the Second Chamber,* which provides for the abolition of the Legation representing the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Vatican. The amendment was introduced by a Calvinist; and at once the Catholic leader, Mgr. Nolens, became vehement and loudly threatened to wreck the present coalition government if the measure passed. Immediately upon its adoption, the four Catholic members of Premier Colijn's Cabinet resigned. The Dutch press united in scoring both sides for debasing so important an ecclesiastical issue...
...evangelicals are not to be de rigueur. (Of these, the most picturesque is the Baptist belief that the body of a convert must be totally immersed in water-either running water such as the River Jordan or a pool constructed in the church. Most other churches from Catholic to Calvinist are content with symbolical sprinkling of water on the forehead...