Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theology is currently not so dead as it was a decade ago, and in gloomy, depressed Europe it is actually alive. Who are its leaders? Most thoughtful Europeans know of Lecerf the French neo-Calvinist, Heim the Lutheran. But all are aware of Karl Barth, 45, Swiss founder of a potent Christian philosophy...
Before the War, Karl Barth preached in the German Reformed Church. Like his professor-father he is an eminent theologian. His theology, now called Barthianism, is pessimistic, dogmatic. It offers the dun-colored thesis that Man is immoral, selfish, bound to be an "unprofitable servant" to the end. Man achieves nothing, will be saved only by grace and belief in the "absolute otherness of God." Barthianism rejects Modernism in so far as Modernism throws out too much of the Bible, too much of God. Fundamentalism also is rejected insofar as it is hampered by the Bible...
...Karl Schafer of Austria had more difficulty than he expected in beating his arch rival, Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden. Grafstrom, a week before the men's figure skating championship, had hurt his leg but was sufficiently recovered to take 1,496 points for his school figures and barely lose by 2,602 to 2,514.5. A debonnaire French couple, Met Mme Pierre Brunet, won the championship for pairs...
...Karl Adams, Jr., of Boston...
Recent appoints to the staff of producers are as follows: Karl Adams, Jr. '33, and T. K. Dunstan '33, to the joint managership of tickets; B. P. Rogers '33 and G. B. Van Ness '33 to the joint managership of publicity; and Thomas Whiteside '32 to the managership of costumes...