Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theologians, churchmen and their followers are getting set for a high-level hassle in August, when the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches meets in Evanston, 111 . Main theme of the Assembly: "Christ, the Hope of the World." European Protestant theologians, it is expected, will insist that the Hope is only in the strictly Biblical Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World, a theory that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian...
...much of European Protestantism-Christianity appears to be a means for coming to terms with a world which man makes worse but cannot make better . . . The result is that U.S. churches are largely "activist"; Europe's largely "escapist" ... In view of the awe in which, among some American churchmen, Europe's theologians are held, Dr. Van Dusen and those of his mind have a large but a prophetic job cut out for them...
...Wells offices, a Wells representative telephones a group of church leaders an invitation to lunch. The lunch is "complimentary," and the informal job of persuasion that the Wellsman does over coffee is known as the "Complimentary Conference." Its object is to explain the "Wells Way" and to convince the churchmen that Wells does not go in for high-pressure methods, just efficiency...
...most influential U.S. Roman Catholic churchmen lashed out last week at Joe McCarthy's kind of antiCommunism. Tyranny, the Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil told 2,500 cheering delegates to the C.I.O. Auto Workers' international educational conference at Chicago, cannot be fought with more tyranny. And since McCarthy launched his Red hunt four years ago, "we have been victims ... of a kind of shell game. We have been treated like country rubes, to be taken in by a city slicker from Appleton...
...modern Protestants a lot to think about. In the '20s, almost singlehanded, Barth took Luther and Calvin down from the dusty bookshelves where liberal Protestants had put them, and roughly recalled theologians everywhere to some fundamentals.† In the '30s, Barth was one of the first European churchmen to attack the Nazis. But since the late '40s, Barth has played a different kind of role. In the political and spiritual battle of Communism and the democracies, he has become Europe's most respected Christian preacher of neutralism...