Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This seminary made my ministry possible," he said. "Over 50 years ago, I came here a confused and hungry student, wishing above all else to teach and preach the Christian gospel, but wondering how I could do it with intellectual integrity and self-respect. And here the doors were opened...
Church & State. In Los Angeles, detectives finally tracked down Superior Judge William B. Neeley's official gown, arrested city hall Janitor James Langley, who said: "I just sort of borrowed those robes to preach in, because I'm a deacon in my church...
However, Walsh's conviction of the emptiness of life without religion is, of course, inherent in his answers to the students' doubts. Throughout the book, he draws on his personal faith to preach beyond the limits of the questions raised. He bases most of his arguments for Christian doctrine on three familiar pillars: "X is not enough," free will, and the Scriptures. The first he uses largely to combat over weening faith in science. Invoking by implication the Prime Mover, he argues that science can not penetrate the world of the spirit...
...Professor of Homiletics at Yale's Divinity School, the Rev. Halford E. Luccock, 68, has spent the last 25 years teaching his theological students how to preach with wisdom and, if possible, with wit. Since 1948, writing under the name of Simeon Stylites in the Christian Century, he has given his readers a weekly column of pungently good-humored religious and moral criticism. His slogan: "I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable...
Against these signs, on Easter Day, Otto Dibelius will preach an old gospel with the firmness of a man who has always known where his duty lies. He once described his confident faith thus...