Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned to take each other less seriously." Yet quite a few people were surprised at his appointment to succeed retiring Congregationalist Douglas Horton, 67: Harvard, with such top scholars on its faculty as Paul Tillich, Richard Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, and Britain's Christopher Dawson, had chosen a parish pastor...
Philadelphia-born Samuel Miller, 59, graduated from Colgate University, ministered to Baptist churches in Belmar, Arlington and Clifton, N.J. before becoming minister of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in 1933. In 1955, during Harvard Divinity's $5,000,000 renaissance, Pastor Miller became Professor Miller-lecturing on pastoral theology at Harvard and the philosophy of religion at Andover-Newton Theological School...
...four rows of ribbons on the silk stole of the curate as he greeted the members of the congregation. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist's, Anglican Church in the little Berkshire town of Crowthorne-like churchgoers throughout England-are growing used to having a middle-aged pastor with military decorations. In Britain today, the church is second only to "the City," London's commercial center, as the favored career for senior officers retiring from the armed services...
...fields of welfare-state spivs supply most of the antic humor to be found in this uneven first novel. Oliver Ventnor, the book's mock-hero, is sent down from Oxford for forging his uncle's name to a check. Stony-broke and stonily rebuked by his pastor father, Oliver signs on as a teaching "captain" at Sunnylands Grange...
Return to Crucifixions. The pastor believes that the ancient times may not be gone irrevocably. "At any rate," he says, "crucifixions have come into fashion again, and they were always a sign of the ancient days." This suggests that "primitive Christianity may also return," not so much reuniting man with his immediate past as carrying him far back through the centuries, to begin again at Christendom's own beginning. And it is to this point of origin that Amadeus struggles to find his way-to be reborn in the idea of the Nativity itself and to stand, with...