Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrival of the atomic age has given the layman a profound respect for science, if any symbolic meaning can be attached to a recent incident on Quincy Street...
What ought a Christian to mean by "the church"? Speaking before the Chicago Church Federation, TIME & LIFE Editor Henry Robinson Luce joined the growing ranks of Protestants who are raising this pertinent question. This week, the Christian Century published Layman Luce's speech. Excerpts: , "Between us and the early church is the obvious difference that we Christians have become a great thing in the world. They were the leaven in the lump; we have become the lump. ... If today the laws of human society are not in conformity with the will of God, we cannot say that...
Died. Prince Marcantonio Colonna, 66, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne (highest honorary office a Catholic layman can hold at the Vatican court), head of one of the oldest, most powerful families of Italy's Black-bluebloods; after long illness; in Rome...
...first 100% layman ever to head the Federal Council of Churches (TIME, Dec. 16), Cincinnati Lawyer Charles P. Taft, looked like a fine new broom-and the cluttered house of U. S. Protestantism is thick with ancient ecclesiastical dust. The situation suggested a lot of house-cleaning ideas to sharp-tongued Magazine Writer Stanley High. Wrote angry Presbyterian High in this week's Christian Century...
From my observation I would say that the average layman at a denominational assembly is heard about as often and felt about as potently as the average freshman member of Congress. ... In the actual business of determining where the church shall stand, what it shall do, the preachers -by virtue of their acquaintance with each other, their familiarity with the proceedings, their training and their capacity to get excited about ecclesiastical and theological obfuscations, and their facility in public speech-are the works...