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...Texas in 1946 after a wartime tour of duty as a Navy chaplain. Lewis soon found that his students "didn't see the relevance of Christian faith in daily life." He quit his Texas chaplaincy in 1950 to take graduate divinity studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "the Valhalla of all Presbyterians." In Europe he encountered a number of religious training centers for student laymen, decided he had found the way for the church to reach undergraduates back home. He returned to Austin, rounded up a few thousand dollars from local businessmen, and with the cooperation of university...
...owns outright. Like many foreign stars living in Switzerland, he pays the Swiss government a flat and fairly nominal yearly sum, and no additional income taxes. He has never lost his penny-conscious regard for money. In fact, although he lives in a country twice as thrifty as Scotland, he is celebrated locally as the biggest tightwad in the canton...
...Princeton back on the theological map was Scotland-born John Alexander Mackay (rhymes with high), seminary president from 1936 to 1959. Although conservative, he was open to new trends in the church, brought in as lecturers such famed theologians as Emil Brunner of Zurich. "Mackay brought real excitement to the faculty," says Eugene Carson Blake, the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Mackay also doubled both the seminary's enrollment and its endowment, started the school's first doctoral program, founded the lively highbrow quarterly, Theology Today...
...Last month Critic F. R. Leavis subjected him to a savage literary mugging, and soon after, Snow suffered a detached retina that may cost the sight of his left eye. But last week Sir Charles ignored all trials for a new triumph: his installation as 30th Lord Rector of Scotland's ancient (1411) St. Andrews University. Snow postponed an eye operation for the ceremony. "I can't let the lads down," he said. "The eye was never much good anyway...
Among the highest walls in Christendom is the one that stands between Roman Catholicism and the Church of Scotland...