Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question submitted reads "Is the Theory of Evolution Incompatible with the Christian Religion...
...hostess of this royal birthday party intime, which preceded the wedding of Astrid and Leopold last week, were the bride's parents: Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergötland, brother of King Gustaf V of Sweden; and his wife, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, sister of both King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon VII of Norway. (The three last named were children of King Frederik VIII of Denmark.) Bourgeois Stockholmers nodded approval at this celebration of Leopold's birthday not at the Royal Palace but in the quietly sumptuous apartment of Prince Carl...
...Coffin sees no necessity for "scrapping the churches now a work." Rather is the call for bet ter preparation of men to minister in them. "A man who is no 'mighty in the Scriptures' is likely to be feeble and of brief service in a position of Christian leader ship. . . The trouble-maker in the Church, whether he be reactionary or radical, is the man without perspective of the course of Christian history, so that he repeat: ancient blunders and is unenriched by past discoveries." Such a man must acquire "a theology which conserves all the Christian experience...
...Coffin does not seek "the lowest common denominator, a minimum creed and worship to which none can object." Said he: "Anarchy is not an open question with the teachers and students in a school of law. . . . Christian Science is not an open question with the faculty of a college of physicians and surgeons. . . . Union Theological Seminary is committed to the cause of Jesus Christ, to His faith and His purpose and His redeeming power, to training men and women to spread His Gospel. . . . His supremacy as the revelation of God and the Savior of the world is not an open...
...forth the corresponding Harvard view of Yale spirit and Yale religion would perhaps not conduce to the growth of Christian harmony and brotherly love. The appeal is to wholly different types of mind; but, as Mr. Ring Larder reminds us, some like them hot, some like them cold. Religion at Harvard and religion at Yale have this in common, that each is a natural growth of the habit of mind characteristic of the university. Yale's motto is "Light and Truth," Harvard's is "Truth" alone. Whether intentionally or not, the distinction appears to symbolize a difference in the Yale...