Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the pages of the Christian Century, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked "continental" theology for having its head in the clouds. His target was the continental theologians' chief spokesman, Karl Barth...
Through, Not Around. Earth's theology, writes Niebuhr, delineates "the final pinnacle of the Christian faith and hope with fidelity to the Scriptures. Yet it requires correction, because it has obscured the foothills where human life must be lived. It started its theological assault decades ago with the reminder that we are men and not God, that God is in the heavens and that we are on the earth. The wheel is come full circle. It is now in danger of offering a crown without a cross, a triumph without a battle, a scheme of justice without the necessity...
Last week we submitted a letter to you challenging University and CRIMSON liberals to come out in support of Congressional candidate Walter O'Brien, Democrat and Progressive. He is opposed by Christian Herter, Republican, who, despite the white-washing given him by Bayard Hooper in last Wednesday's CRIMSON, still holds one of the most reactionary voting records in Congress. Our first letter was not printed. In view of the new situation resulting from publication of Mr. Hooper's article, however, we are confident you will run this reply...
...merits. Said she: "Some jobs and some people can take on matrimony, and some cannot." Last week, after three years of trying to combine her job and matrimony, pert "Miss Mac" decided to leave Wellesley and join her husband, the Rev. Dr. Douglas Horton, a leader in the Congregational Christian Churches, in New York. Explained Mrs. Horton: "As a team we can accomplish more than the sum of the accomplishments of each of us working separately...
Died. Professor Ludwig Christian Alexander Karlovich Martens, Soviet engineer and onetime party bigwig, "ambassador" to the U.S. of the unrecognized Bolshevik government (from 1919 to 1921); of unexplained causes; in Moscow...