Word: parsonical
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...came to Canterbury with a reputation for both deep spirituality and donnish wit-a man unwilling to compromise his own stern theology, but so fond of epigrams that he gives them up for Lent. Frankly at home in high-church ceremony, he nonetheless seems at times the amiable country parson, enjoying simple amusement in self-deflation. Archbishop Ramsey always signs his name "Michael Cantuar"-the traditional Latin abbreviation for Canterbury -but he sometimes autographs pictures "Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury," joking that the longer title "seems to give the people more for their money...
...peculiarly dry and sterile vulgate of the church, his young life faced by the stern presence of rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner to another in a splendid gallery of sketches spanning sev eral decades, the novel comes down to the simplest of statements of simple faith. "I think my belief in God personal ly supports me.'' says Father-Preacher Donner, putting his lifetime into...
...Parish Parson. Barth spent a year grappling with Von Harnack's historicism. absorbed more liberal theology at the universities of Tubingen and Marburg before being ordained in 1908 by his father at the Reformed cathedral of Bern. He served his ecclesiastical apprenticeship as an assistant pastor in a French-speaking parish near Geneva. Then, in 1911, he was called to the Reformed Church of Safenwil, a small mill town in northern Switzerland, where he married a sprightly young violinist named Nelly Hoffman...
Superficially, the book and the film tell the same story: a parson's daughter (Deborah Kerr), half in love with a charming bounder (Michael Redgrave), hires on as governess to his niece (Pamela Franklin) and nephew (Martin Stephens)-in the picture the girl seems about eight years old, the boy about ten. The children are charming and she loves them dearly, but after a few days at Ely, the vast old country house the children live in, she begins to notice prowlers about the place -first a man, then a woman, both of them surrounded by an uncanny emanation...
...academic type who indulges himself in lengthy prose calisthenics on the destructive force of innocence in American society. It is a good meditation, filled with elaborately balanced sentences that deserve to' be read twice, and must be if one is to understand them. But what of the egregious parson and his wife? They were an excellently burlesqued Macbeth and Lady, but they disappear halfway through the second act, leaving the porter to explain the rest of the play. Not very surprisingly, the audience wants its money back...