Word: sergius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receives its orders day by day from God, who alone knows what will be required of his servants by tomorrow!" Since the Russian Orthodox Church, before the War, was deepest bogged in reaction, its recent recovery has been the most spectacular, under the leadership of Nicholas Berdyaev and Dean Sergius Bulgakov of the Russian Orthodox Seminary (for exiles) in Paris. Protestant thought, to Professor Horton. is most stimulating in the Lutheran nations of Scandinavia, in Czechoslovakia, whose Philosopher-President Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was "the last great liberal humanitarian," and in Germany, where Karl Barth, most famed if not most...
...concocted an arbitrary and superficial definition. Dr. Oparin has constructed a fairly complete picture of how it all happened, which he published two years ago in Russian. Published last week in the U. S. was The Origin of Life* a translation of Oparin's book made by Dr. Sergius Morgulis, professor of biochemistry at the University of Nebraska...
Died. Sir George Louis Victor Henry Sergius Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, 45, brother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and cousin of the late King George V of England; after long illness resulting from a fractured thigh; in London...
Lately, vexed at the waning influence of the atheists and the tenacity of Christianity, Stalin started his crusher to work on churchmen-in particular on Metropolitan Sergius, head of the Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan Vitalius, head of the Living Church (TIME, Jan. 24). These dignitaries, and a great many more, were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim...
...great age and snowy beard of Sergius did not save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...