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Further plans provide for a Professorship of American Church History which would free one scholar to concentrate on the theological traditions of the New World. The purpose of this study will be to help future ministers understand American history in terms of its many religious currents. "This aspect is one of the last to be fully developed in the study of church history," explained George H. Williams, associate professor of Church History and Acting Dean of the Divinity School...
None of these theories satisfies Dr. Hugh A. Moran, retired Presbyterian minister, and Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University. While studying Chinese 45 years ago, he became fascinated by the discovery that some basic Chinese characters have their origin in the signs of the solar zodiac. In spite of the press of more urgent business-he was an official of the Y.M.C.A. in China, director of prisoner relief in Siberia during World War I, pastor at Cornell University until 1942-Dr. Moran found time to dig deeper into the historical ABCs. eventually evolved a basic theory. The alphabet...
...right hand- and the other on the left of the gate of the temple, of Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End ... in the book of Revelation. " Only Survivor. The astrological trail, says Moran, leads to Chaldea, "the home of astrology par excellence." But at that point, the scholar runs into trouble: much of the evidence there might have been of the astrological origin of the alphabet has long since perished. Where to turn next? "Chinese culture alone . . . has survived with an unbroken history down to our own times and has come to us complete, as a living entity...
...letter M apparently goes back to the Chinese Luna constellation Ψwhich in old forms of Hebrew turned into Ψ The Chinese Luna station is San, which is in the solar period Virgo. The astronomical symbol for Virgo: Ψ. To Scholar Moran, all this does more than shed light on the alphabet. Says he: "We are able to trace as never before the golden thread which runs through human history from the barbarity of human sacrifice and the earliest glimmerings of a vengeful God to the highest revelation that we have of ourselves as the children...
...museum considered it well worth the purchase price, cited the opinion of Harvard's Rembrandt Scholar Jakob Rosenberg: "The portrait of a young man with beret and gold chain is one of the finest Rembrandts that ever came to this country." Last exhibited 45 years ago at London's Royal Academy, the painting has been hidden from view since then in a private English collection. Covered with coats of varnish. Hartford's new Rembrandt had to be painstakingly cleaned before the artist's original signature was uncovered. The date. 1655, placed the painting in the period...