Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example lingered in German minds, as it was meant to. Even one of Adenauer's top advisers was heard to say: "Maybe, just maybe, the Russians are so desperate to solidify their position in the Far East that they will make concessions in Europe." Editorialized the influential weekly Christ und Welt: "One Raab does not make a summer, but he might announce a change of season...
...seminar last week at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Students and faculty members welcomed Oscar Cullmann as one of Europe's outstanding Protestant theologians, author of Peter, an exegetical study of the origins of the Papacy (TIME, Dec. 7, 1953), and of a noted eschatological work, Christ and Time. His listeners found Theologian Cullmann's English fluent, his manner affable, and his occasional comments...
...Protestant protest . . . The biggest thing that happened that week was Easter, and to put a Roman Catholic on the cover of your magazine (which is carried all over the world) certainly sets the religion of Jesus Christ back pretty far ... At least you could have put a good Protestant missionary on your cover. We don't get enough publicity for the good...
...troubles in getting organized. In 1943 four separate theological schools merged on the campus of the University of Chicago to become the Federated Theological Faculty: the University of Chicago Divinity School (Baptist), the Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregationalist), the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian), and the Disciples of Christ Divinity House. The resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr...
...like a top and said, 'Peter -you idiot-this is My grandest plan for you' "; and so they were married. After a Cape Cod honeymoon, Peter received a call to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where his preaching of a "redblooded . . . bronzed, fearless" Christ brought young and old by incredible thousands to his church door...