Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover a story as old as Easter, TIME'S Religion Editor John T. Elson flew to Basel, Switzerland, to talk to the man on this week's cover. Theologian Karl Earth. They talked, among other things, of Calvin, Mozart and Reinhold Niebuhr ("a great man. but if only he had an inner ear, through which he could hear what Mozart is saying, he wouldn't be so serious all the time"). Barth cheerfully remarked that a Barthian usually smokes a pipe; an orthodox theologian, cigars; and liberals, cigarettes. He offered Religion Editor Elson-a cigar...
Barth has been variously damned as a heretic, a narrow-minded Biblicist, and an atheist in disguise-and praised as the most creative Protestant theologian since John Calvin. President James McCord of Princeton
...infinite imagination and irresponsibility" writing "irrelevant theology to America. I don't read Barth any more," he says. And Dr. Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary speaks for a host of U.S. fundamentalists in charging that "Barthianism is even more hostile to the theology of Luther and Calvin than Romanism...
Liberal Wind. Von Harnack was Barth's cicerone to theological liberalism, the intellectual wind prevailing in German religious thought after the turn of the century. By then, Protestantism had come a long, hard way from Luther and Calvin. During the 17th and 18th centuries, at the hands of their followers, the creative insights of the great reformers had been hardened into rigid dogmatisms-such as a literal acceptance of Biblical miracles-that were left shattered by the rational attacks of the Enlightenment and the discoveries of natural sciences. By 1850, Protestant thinkers had begun to construct...
...Kirk, he said, "adheres to the 16th century Reformation and to the theological and ethical tradition deriving from Calvin and Knox." From the back of the church came the voice of Presbyterianism...