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...resting on a simple, low wooden bed to which he had been moved to make medication easier-shook with spasms. Late in the afternoon, he spoke his last words: "Mater mca [my mother]"-the first words of an invocation to the Virgin Mary that he had learned as a seminarian. Then his body was convulsed by a brief shudder, and he died...
...Biblical criticism, New and Old Testament languages-and to a study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There is no sense in showing a seminarian how to hold a baby for baptism-he'll learn that later," says Dean John Bowen Coburn of Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass...
Golden String. What worries many professors in Baptist seminaries is that they are as far from the conference's stated position on the Bible as Elliott is. Yet, says one seminarian, "officially we still believe the Bible was let down on a golden string." Like Elliott, they are disturbed that Baptists "say we're completely free, yet insist on conformity...
Astonishing Life. The reader may almost feel sorry that she has exchanged the mystic's mad glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute...
...member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and a Lutheran seminarian, I might say that the Rev. Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann does not speak for "us Lutherans." Many seminarians and, I'm sure, many pastors in parish work feel that our parochial schools should receive federal aid. Since we support public education with our tax money, it is only fair that the federal government aid our church schools...