Word: hromadka
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...churches at a world level." But what the world mostly heard were sounds of argument. At the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the chief debate seemed remarkably like the East-West bickering in U.N. The debaters: U.S. Layman John Foster Dulles and Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka...
...Hromadka, who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1940 to 1947 and is now on the faculty of Prague's Charles University, replied in pungent, accented English: "Even the enormous wealth and the atomic power of the American nation must not deceive us ... The Western nations have ceased to be the exclusive masters and architects of the world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average...
...Freedom? The two speakers got almost equal applause. In a press conference afterwards, Hromadka skillfully handled hostile questions. How had the Communist coup affected religion in Czechoslovakia? Said he: "Our churches are more relevant today than they have been in many decades." Was it possible to have a free church in a Communist state? "So far we have been left alone. I don't know what the Communists may do to the church tomorrow. But if they try to restrict my freedom I know what I will do. I will say no. I will go to prison." Later, Hromadka...
Also the Action Committees are certainly not so grue-some as they are described by the Western press. In the Central Action Committee sits also the Dean of our Faculty, Dr. Jan Kozak, Dr. Hromadka, the head of the Czech Brethren Church, and many other non-communists. In our faculty three professors and five docents were put on the retired list. None of really high standard or known to you. Also some few students--seven--were expelled. The English department is untouched. All the decisions of the Action Committee will be verified once more . . . I think even in this respect...