Word: comenius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first session began, the delegates (representing 76 Reformed and Presbyterian church bodies with more than 45 million members) shifted their interest from theology to a theologian. In the limelight: Czechoslovakia's Dr. Joseph Hromadka, 70, wartime lecturer at Princeton, dean of Prague's Communist-controlled Amos Comenius Theological Faculty, a wheel in the World Council of Churches and a vice president of the Presbyterian Alliance. Hromadka has attended every postwar ecumenical congress, has raised serious problems about how Western Christians are to regard their brethren in Iron Curtain countries...
...jungles of Africa. Communicants poured into churches (standing instead of kneeling to receive their bread and wine, chiefly because the Catholics do it the other way). Of all the words uttered to mark the anniversary, none were more Moravian than those spoken by 17th century Moravian Bishop John Amos Comenius...
...winners include Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, for studies on educational psychology in the light of contemporary work on cognition-perception, learning, and thinking; Dimitri Cizevsky, lecture on Slavic, for studies of the philosophy of Comenius and Slavic baroque literature; Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Architecture, for studies of the abbey and Monastery at Cluny; Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for studies of the conflict of the concept of civil liberties and the doctrine of "reason of state...
When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, Dr. Joseph Hromadka, dean of the Jan Comenius Theological Faculty in Prague, was one of the few Christian leaders to cooperate with them. Since then, he has become one of Europe's rare spokesmen for the view that Christianity can get along under Communist regimes...