Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although the Communist press calls him "an agent of the American imperialists," Dibelius refuses to preach a "crusade" against the Communists. As a Christian, he holds that his first duty, now as under the Nazis, is to "preserve the unity of the church of Jesus Christ," not to wage political warfare. As a German, he knows that his continued ministry to East as well as West helps keep alive some feeling of community in a divided country...
...Luther's old refuge in the castle of the Wartburg, the representatives of Germany's Protestants -seven-eighths Lutheran and the rest Calvinists of the Reformed faith-met to consider a church union. At a crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion, Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical Church...
...shame and a detriment to such long-established denominations as Presbyterianism, Methodism, Catholicism, etc., that such persons are permitted to "preach" . . . "Prophet" Jones cannot seriously consider himself serving God or Christ by wearing topaz and garnet rings, a $17,000 diamond bracelet, and sporting over 400 suits...
...Freshman sporting teams at a reserved-table dinner. Another House's newspaper, in a special copy for distribution to the Yard, slandered an excellent group of tutors in a clumsy effort to praise them. In other years, even some of the younger Yard proctors have been known to preach to their charges on the virtues of the House from which they came...
...this belief, he was suspended in 1949 from his functions as a priest by Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, and expelled from the Jesuit order. Since then, he and a small group of followers, known as the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, have continued to preach their doctrines on Boston Common (TIME, Oct. 13). Three weeks ago Feeney sent letters to President Eisenhower and all members of Congress, warning them to become Catholics soon if they want to escape damnation...