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...theology which lank, twinkling-eyed, pipe-smoking Karl Barth has been preaching for nearly 20 of his 51 years is not, on its face, adapted to evangelism. Yet Dr. Barth, a dynamic pulpit orator, filled chapels when he taught at the Universities of Münster, Göttingen and Bonn, today fills the chapel at the University of Basle. And his sermons are of the oldtime hour-long variety. Earth's "crisis theology" can best be appreciated by people who believe the Church is complacent, self-assured, temporizing with crucial issues. Earth preaches that God is "wholly other...
Four Mennonite bishops sat facing the congregation. One of them took seven Bibles, slipped a paper marker into each, put the Bibles on the pulpit. Seven men, chosen by the congregation, came forward, took the Bibles and returned to their seats. All this was in accordance with Proverbs 16:33, The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The seven men with their scriptures walked back to the pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free...
Canon law of the Roman Catholic Church forbids priests to take sides in political conflicts or civil wars. But Catholic theologians make a broad distinction between material, partisan politics and politics in which moral issues are involved. A priest may attack sterilization laws from the pulpit but not denounce a political party as such. On this controversial subject, much misunderstood by non-Catholics, Pope Pius XI last week made a pronouncement. He gave his august backing to an eminent European prelate who had written: "The hierarchic authority is perfectly entitled to pronounce on any political party or political movement...
...sedition. During the trial, from which press and public were excluded, the State's case apparently so far collapsed that all really grave charges against Pastor Niemöller were dropped. The State was finally reduced to pressing nothing more than a nuisance charge of "misuse of the pulpit" under a law passed in 1871 under Kaiser Wilhelm I for the purpose of smacking, not too severely, sassy preachers...
...cannot help saying quite harshly and bluntly that the Jewish people came to grief and disgrace because of its Positive Christianity!" thundered Martin Niemoller from his pulpit on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity last year. "It [the Jewish people] bears a curse throughout the history of the world because it was ready to approve of its Messiah just as long and as far as it thought it could gain some advantage for its own plans and its own aims from Him, His words and His deeds. It bears a curse because it rejected Him and resisted Him to the death...