Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More pessimistic was the address of George La Piana, John H. Morison Professor of Church History, yesterday at the first meeting of the Divinity School when he charged that the Church, despite its 20 centuries of existence, had failed to "Christianize politics...
President James B. Conant urged the country to keep cool despite the war and to remain the "last citadel" of reason and the home of scholarship, when he delivered an address yesterday morning at the Chapel Service in Harvard Memorial Church...
...greatest, most tragic failure of the Christian Church in modern times was that it was unable to halt the slow march of Christendom toward World War II. The World Council of Churches, a federation of the greatest non-Roman communions, was born too late to help; it is not even yet operating officially. Unofficially, the Council last July summoned a "board of strategy" of 32 men and two women to meet in a Swiss hotel, draw up a program of Christian international strategy. A long statement of their views was published last week in The Christian Century, with an introduction...
...Wrote Dr. Palmer (before the war began) : "Recommending a peace conference was like advocating the wisdom of insurance in the midst of a city-wide conflagration." The board surveyed the background of the world's disorders, presented some political and economic principles based upon its belief that "the Church Universal ... is not a mere idea but a reality, transcending the nations. It is created by the will of God, not by the will of men. For this reason faith in the Universal Church is the very basis of work towards a better order. . . ." The board concluded its statement with...
...That brotherly relations between the churches be maintained. ... It will be exceedingly difficult for the churches to keep in touch with each other . . . but techniques can be developed through church leaders in neutral countries...