Word: sermons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the world was soon coming to an end, to be followed by a supernatural Kingdom of God. Since it did not, Schweitzer reasoned, Jesus must have been capable of error. Schweitzer advised liberal Protestantism to discard the infallible "Christ personality of dogma"-without discarding the Christ of the Sermon on the Mount, which he hailed as the charter of a great ethical faith...
Born Yesterday (by Garson Kanin; produced by Max Gordon) turns what could have been an angry sermon into an amusing evening. It deals with an ugly customer-a big-time racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...
...church of the air by the chords and tremolos of a studio organ, choristers singing such favorite hymns as Fairest Lord Jesus. After a simple prayer, well-groomed, grey-haired Dr. Sockman-who looks like a successful lawyer and talks like the man next door-preaches a sermon in everyday terms on subjects close to every listener: "Fears May Be Liars"; "How Easy Is Evil?''; "Does It Pay to Be Good...
Teaching had hardly changed since Ptolemy's day. Education was by rote and rod. A young, ugly, runty, sad-eyed Swiss scholar wanted to do something about it. Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi had already thought of preaching as a career-and his first sermon was so bad, the tale goes, that he laughed out loud in the middle of it. He tried law, and flopped again. At 22, in the year 1768, he bought a farm-and failed at that, too. But while his crops went to ruin, he filled his house with waifs, strays and farm kids, and began...
...clear about one thing: there is no defense against a surprise attack with atomic bombs." With this statement as his text, President Conant Tuesday addressed a sermon to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce...