Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was 24, Schweitzer had published a volume on Immanuel Kant, earned two doctorates (theology and philosophy) at Strasbourg University, and become a curate. His superiors had to order him to preach for a full 20 minutes when parishioners complained that Schweitzer just "stopped speaking when he found he had nothing more to say." As a sideline, he wrote (in French) a definitive study of Bach, and rewrote it from scratch in German, because the idea of mere translation bored...
...Orleans rousingly revived its carnival, a wartime casualty, before facing the minor austerities of Lent. U.S. Protestants again showed their increasing interest in Lent as part of "the collective experience of our historic Christianity," took over theaters in many cities to preach Christ's significance to noonday crowds...
...have discovered that sin and guilt are not merely words and empty symbols that pastors in pulpits are accustomed to preach. On the contrary, sin and guilt are terrible matters of fact and reality against which human beings stand helpless...
Next week, in this simple ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Essex County (Orange, N.J.), Pierre Van Paassen, anti-fascist and best-selling author, will become a Unitarian minister. Van Paassen will not have a church. He plans to write and preach throughout the country in the belief that "a small flame can set an immense heap of wood on fire...
Perched on the pillar's yard-square tip, 60 feet above the earth, Simeon could pray or preach as he chose. In actual fact he spent much time and energy corresponding with Christendom's leaders, settling individual and tribal disputes, dispensing personal counsel (men, but no women, might consult him privately). When he died in 459, Simeon the Stylite held an influential place in the early Christian church, and his holy example soon dotted the plains of Syria and upper Mesopotamia with anchorite-bearing pillars...