Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor Klemperer was making a European comeback...
...After the start of U.S.-Jap hostilities, when Stuart himself was interned in a house in Peiping, the Japs, who had hoped to exploit his close personal friendship with Chiang, refused to let him be repatriated to the U.S. He spent the war writing a commentary on the New Testament and playing anagrams with other prisoners...
...world's top authorities on the New Testament is a plain-speaking pipe-smoking Presbyterian minister named Ernest Findlay Scott. For most of his 78 years, English-born Dr. Scott has been writing about Christianity and teaching it. For 19 years he was at Union Theological Seminary, where former colleagues still recall his shyness, forceful lectures...
After retirement from Union in 1938, Dr. Scott went right on teaching (last year at Amherst) and writing. Latest of his 20-odd books, Man & Society in the New Testament (Scribner; $2.75), just published, is the July selection of the Religious Book Club. In it he vigorously hammers home the text that Christ's teaching is no blueprint for the Good Society, but a religion for individuals...
...Pure Ethic. The New Testament, says Dr. Scott, seems to "waver" between two basic ideas-that each man is an individual soul who must know and obey the will of God, and that each man must submerge his individuality in the great human brotherhood of which he forms a part. The Roman Catholic Church emphasized the social concept of Christianity; the Protestant Reformation reasserted the right of the individual to justify himself, in Paul's words, by faith alone. The truth, says Presbyterian Dr. Scott, is that Christ was never concerned with man-in-the-mass, but with showing...