Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure to adapt oneself to an inevitable, remorseless environment, an environment of natural hardship and of social horror. The biologist would claim it to be the elimination of the unfit in the struggle for existence, and as such a natural and beneficial part of the law of life. The theologian must interpret it in different terms, no less valid. It is an integral problem of modern life, and those who seek its solution in terms of death are at least hungering for a vital truth...
...theologian players have been practicing on Cambridge Common for several weeks and are regarded as the favorites to win the league title. Several more teams will join the league when fall crew practice is abandoned next week...
Cardinal Vaini, passing his 80th year among a gardenful of hobbling rabbits and the brilliant pagan writers of the new century, at his sequestered villa on the Janiculum, is an object of fear and reverence to the Vatican, of warmest affection to the Cabala. As a brilliant young theologian, he shocked his teachers by burying himself in China, a missionary with a pigtail. He built a cathedral and by sheer force of statistics won first a mitre, then the Hat. A pistol bullet fired near him by ecstatic Mile, de Morfontaine puts him in mind of how the faith...
...Ingersoll lecture is delivered annually by some prominent theologian. The subject of immortality is fixed, but each speaker chooses a different phase or angle of the topic...
...best thing you can do as the result of this conference is to utilize as you have not and do not utilize, your opportunities to learn in your colleges and schools; to learn how to think. You don't know how." Thus Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, educator and theologian, to several hundred young university men and women who assembled in Evanston, Ill., last week for an Interdenominational Student Conference. Dr. Fitch had been listening to a long abstract wrangle over the definition of "the Church" by undergraduate debaters...