Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe, said Pastor Powell, their willingness to let the bomb be dropped is "a little selfishness, because they have their own community at heart; maybe it is self-preservation." Said High-School Teacher Bernard Scott: "What's the use of having these atom bombs if they're not to be used? It's just like having a new car in the garage and letting it be idle. What we ought to do is to notify the Russians that if they don't get back north of the 38th parallel by a certain date...
Politically, Pastor Niemöller has always been an ardent nationalist, in favor of a strong, united Germany. In recent months, he has been preaching a brand of religion that some Christians have found puzzling. One of his speeches, condensed in last week's Christian Century, is based on the proposition that modern war is something no Christian should support. The church, he says, should proclaim the words of Jesus, "He that would save his life shall lose it," instead of "remaining silent when the tempters try to bait poor human victims for their bloody business by suggesting that...
Last week, in Manhattan, where he is lecturing, 58-year-old Pastor Niemöller elaborated his new views. Though he no longer believes that anything can be achieved by violence, he said, he does not want to be considered a pacifist, because pacifism is a principle...
...Hanns Lilje, Lutheran pastor, was awakened from an afternoon nap in his house in Berlin by the violent ringing of the doorbell. He guessed at once that the two men at the door were secret police. Inside him a voice seemed to whisper, "Now, it's begun...
...right. What began in 1944 for Dr. Lilje-solitary confinement, bullying and long interrogations at the hands of the Gestapo-was ended at last by U.S. troops. For Pastor Lilje, as for many another persecuted Christian, the experience deepened his religious faith. Now bishop of Hanover and one of Germany's Protestant leaders, Bishop Lilje shows the spiritual fruits of his imprisonment in a short, simply written book published in the U.S. last week-The Valley of the Shadow (Muhlenberg Press...