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...amid unparalleled success, man has failed to equal the ideal. However, his ideas are somewhat less than "profound," more they are the "re-found" ideas of Plato's Republic. Like Plato, Professor Phenix slips into the habit of assuming that the lessons of truth learned by philosopher, professor, preacher, kings through protracted thought and laborious revelation can be taught to the average man. Is the "supreme worth" to be patiently taught and docilely learned, or is it rather to be discovered amongst wickedness, desire and imperfection, a kernel of redeeming grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1962 | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

That's for me, automation! Please order lor this parish the following automatic machines: One sermon writer and preacher, one acolyte trainer, one paperwork machine with built-in duplicator, one parish caller, one sinner converter, one confession hearer and consultant. Both my curate and I are fed up with being human beings in a 70-hour week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1962 | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...CHRISTIAN ANTI-COMMUNISM CRUSADE, led by Dr. Fred Schwarz, 48, a genial, Australian-born physician and onetime Baptist lay preacher. Schwarz began his crusade in 1953, has become one of the principal figures of the rightist revival. Better read and less inflammatory than most of his counterparts, he avows it his purpose "fundamentally to inform, to teach, to educate" about Communism. He has drawn crowds of up to 15,000 in cities across the U.S., persuaded 41 mayors of California towns to declare an antiCommunism week, plans to invade New York City next July in "the biggest thing they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: The Ultras | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...time he became a Lutheran preacher at 24, Albert Schweitzer had already begun to question orthodox Christian doctrine and to hedge on the divinity of Christ. Last week, from its Boston headquarters, the Unitarian Church of the Larger Fellowship (which ministers to isolated believers by mail) announced somewhat uncertainly that the 86-year-old jungle doctor, who won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, had accepted "honored membership" in Unitarian ranks. Was Schweitzer renouncing Lutheranism? His own eclectic exegesis: "For a long time now I have had connections with the Unitarian Church. Yet there is no question of my breaking with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1961 | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

MEMORIAL CHURCH preacher is the Rev. William B. J. Martin of the First Community Church, Dallas, Texas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKLY CALENDAR | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

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