Word: millers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Miller concludes the William Belden Noble lectures tonight at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church, speaking on the topic "Selfhood and Salvation...
...topsy-turvy world is faced by the confusion of its principles," Stanford professor of Religion Alexander Miller asserted last night at Memorial Church in the next to last Noble lecture. "Occasionally there are cries of 'forward,' but no one knows which way is forward...
Speaking on the topic "Our Intellectual Age," Miller asserted that "these may not be times to try men's souls as in other times, but they are certainly times to try men's minds. The strength of Christianity lies in finding spokesmen who can move freely on the intellectual frontiers...
While acknowledging their importance for having refeshing ideas, Miller sniped at such varied personalities and institutions as H. L. Mencken, Christian Science, Marxism and "athelstic existentialsm." The latter, he said, lacks spiritual and social vitality, while Christan Science he called an "opium cloud of religion, the idolatry of spiritualism...
...Marxist attacks on Christianity," Miller stated, "taught the Church a lesson in keeping its temper and in discipline of debate." Although Mencken "spent a lifetime lambasting the Church," he said, "we will be worse off if we don't see his kind again...