Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts were wrong. Instead, postwar Europe's dominant force turned out to be Christian Democracy. Today, Christian Democrats govern or share heavily in the governing of every war-torn country of Western Europe; most of their Premiers and all of their foreign ministers (except The Netherlands') are Christian Democrats. All are disciples of European unity, all share an overall philosophy, all-perhaps by political accident-are Roman Catholics. When Italy's De Gasperi, West Germany's Adenauer and France's Bidault sit down to negotiate a treaty or discuss the future, they draw from...
What is their credo? Fundamentally, it is the common heritage of Western civilization, a Judeo-Christian heritage with which men of all faiths may agree. Their basic philosophical faith may be generally stated as a belief in 1) the fatherhood of God, 2) the brotherhood of man, 3) the essential dignity of man, and 4) the right of the individual to hold and administer private property, subject to his responsibilities to his fellowmen. Christian Democracy began as a Christian Socialism and gradually moved towards center and right. Originally, its intention was to escape the bleak godlessness of both left...
...Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
...This seminary made my ministry possible," he said. "Over 50 years ago, I came here a confused and hungry student, wishing above all else to teach and preach the Christian gospel, but wondering how I could do it with intellectual integrity and self-respect. And here the doors were opened...
...Montclair, N.J. For the next eleven years, First Baptist grew and flourished under his magnetic pulpit, and Harry Fosdick grew with it. Each morning at 9 he shut himself up in an unmarked office and spent three hours soaking up philosophy and literature in preparation for his Sunday sermons. Christian behavior, not doctrine, was what he preached; he was against materialism and sin, and for the righteous life. But though what he had to say was not startling, he said it with such eloquence, and such a wealth of practical application, that his suburbanite parishioners were stirred and delighted...