Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three years later, his first philosophical book, The Religious Philosophy of Kant, was published, while he was working for his licentiate in theology. At the same time, he became a preacher in Strasbourg's Church of St. Nicholas. "Preaching was a necessity of my being," he wrote in his autobiography.-"I felt it as something wonderful that I was allowed to address a congregation every Sunday about the deepest questions of life." In 1902 he was made a curate of the church...
...Second Coming. In 1903, Schweitzer was appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College. In preparation for a series of lectures on the history of research into the life of Jesus, he began the work which was first to make his reputation international-The Quest of the Historical Jesus...
...religious thinking and living have character that defies any precise labeling. He is a pantheist, but he is far more than a pantheist. "Every form of living Christianity," he says, "is pantheistic in that it is bound to envisage everything that exists as having its being in the great First Cause of all being." But to him, ethical piety cannot depend upon the impersonal First Cause manifested in nature but upon the First Cause manifested in the "will-to-love...
...Looters. Which of the three traditions should be chosen? Though Sir Walter's heart leans towards the first, his mind rejects all three. Instead, he says, a new sort of Christianization process is needed if universities are to correct the world's confusion rather than merely reflect...
...many, such hope seemed perilously near to despair, but it was hope enough for Sir Walter. Last week, while still heading the government's University Grants Committee, he was busy preparing for his new job as first principal of St. Catherine's, a new college "based on the Christian faith and philosophy of life." Sir Walter's hope was considerably fortified by the faith of others, notably of King George VI, who gave furniture from Windsor Castle for St. Catherine's, and last week offered its principal the use of Windsor's Henry III Tower...