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Toward Neoliberalism. Lutheran Cullmann, 53, is a great searcher for new meanings himself. Born in Strasbourg, he has occupied the chair of Early Church History and the New Testament at Switzerland's Basel University since 1938. Theologian Cullmann also teaches early Christianity at the Sorbonne, commuting to Paris for two days of lecturing every fortnight. Cullmann stitches busily away at his theological works on trains between Basel, Paris and Rome (soon to be published is his book on the Christology of the New Testament, and also in progress are a French translation of the New Testament, a commentary...
...professor is more than a liberator of literature and theology; he also "liberated" Paris and Strasbourg in World War H. In combat psychological warfare, Miller had to advance to crucial points in the front lines and answer German bullets with broadcasts asking the enemy to surrender. He proudly relates that on August 25, 1944. "I liberated Paris. I was the second person into the city, right behind General Leclere. It was a wonderful day--fighting and drinking and reveling in the streets. You would shoot at Germans and then step back into a doorway and kiss a pretty girl...
...Gold-Plated Cadillac. Sacha Wolanow's past is just as mysterious as the "friends" he keeps talking about. He says he was born in Poland 40 years ago, migrated at the age of twelve, first to Strasbourg, then Paris, where he claims to have made a fortune in the textile market by the time he was 20: "I don't just spend my money. I sneak my money to England, and there I buy gold bars. In 1938 I got enough gold. When Hitler started strutting around. I, Sacha, marched out." Somehow...
Servetus started his career on the Catholic side of the fence, as a promising scholar-assistant to the confessor of Emperor Charles V. By 19, however, his theological studies had already made him a Protestant, and in 1530 he fled to the Reformation strongholds of Basel, and later, Strasbourg. He was welcomed in both places, until he started explaining his advanced religious views. His book, On the Errors of the Trinity, an attack on the "three-headed Cerberus" of traditional theology, shocked the reformers as much as it did the Catholics. In 1532, his book already banned in Strasbourg...
...Holland, an 18th century Strasbourg silver tea service went for $22,000; earlier it had found no takers...