Word: marcus
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...Marcus Bach of the University of Iowa School of Religion calls himself a "religious sleuth." For 15 years (partly financed by a Rockefeller fellowship) he has been investigating the state of Protestantism in the U.S. Published this week is the result: an autobiographical Report to Protestants (Bobbs-Merrill, $3), which is well-timed for this month's big conference of churches at Amsterdam...
Some 15 years ago, when young Pastor Marcus Bach first went to his Evangelical pulpit in the town he calls Fairfield, Kans., most of Fairfield's farmers and cattlemen were members of the Evangelical and Baptist churches. The same kinds of cars nuzzled the two churches on Sunday mornings and the same kinds of Godfearing Kansans sang and prayed inside. Why shouldn't the two become one flock? To Pastor Bach and the young Baptist preacher across the way, the 200-odd-sect division of Protestantism in the U.S. was "inherently wrong and sinful...
...church leaders at Amsterdam, warns Marcus Bach, must remember the individual Protestant worshiper and his spiritual needs: "I had traveled 15 years only to agree that the personal religious life must come first in any Protestant plan . . . If the leaders of the World Assembly failed to challenge the individual . . . they would declare unity with their lips but retain plurality in their mission...
Last week, as commander of Israeli forces trying to open the road to Jerusalem, Marcus was in the hills west of the town. There, a few minutes before the U.N. truce went into effect, an Arab bullet killed him. His body was brought back to Tel Aviv by jeep, to be sent to West Point for burial. Said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "His name will live forever in the annals of the Jewish people...
...University of California's Max Radin, 68, law teacher, Brandeisian philosopher and historian of the law, biographer of Marcus Brutus, indefatigable author of legal books and articles (a WPA project was once assigned to catalogue them all). A first-name friend of U.S. Supreme Court justices, Radin was nominated to the California Supreme Court in 1940, but the commission on judges turned him down (he had spoken out for Tom Mooney and Sacco & Vanzetti...