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...Sidewalk. Young Rector Kinsolving's congregation obviously likes the shaking he is giving it. He moved to Pasco four months ago from a mission vicarage in California, an earlier tour as intern chaplain at San Quentin Prison and two years as an adman in Philadelphia and Phoenix. Ariz., has a strong Episcopal family background (his father, grandfather, great-uncle and cousin were or are bishops ). Said a fellow clergyman: "Who's Who is on his side-even if Episcopal doctrine is not." At Pasco, Kinsolving has broken all church attendance records, more than doubled church pledges...
...trouble began with a sermon in Pasco's Church of Our Saviour by energetic Rector Charles Lester Kinsolving, 30. "Hell," he preached, "is a damnable doctrine-responsible for a large measure of this world's hatred. According to this doctrine, God, who commands us to love our enemies, plays the hypocrite by damning his enemies. This in turn stimulates the hatred of God by people who abhor hypocrisy-and it gives sanction to our hatred of certain selected enemies...
Subject of Rector Kinsolving's sermon this week: Heaven...
...planned revolutionary government's declaration on relations with the church. With great good luck, Thielicke avoided either a rifle .bullet or a prison cell. After the Nazi collapse, Thielicke started his career over again, as a professor of theology at Tubingen. In 1951 he was made rector of Tubingen University and later president of the Council of German Rectors. He came to Hamburg in 1954 as the first dean of the newly founded Theological Faculty...
...already hard-beset mother was caught between the doctor's strict orders that the child be kept out of doors and the rector's badgering insistence that he go to school, Sunday school and church. The climax of childhood comes with Sean being caned at school and rebelliously striking back...