Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personnel. Every four years, the Council elects a President. Dean Shailer Mathews (1912-16), original theologian and famed University of Chicago educator, was representative of the worth which religious thinkers have attached to the Council. Frank Mason North (1916-20), Secretary of a Mission Board, was representative of the unity urge which has come from American missionaries abroad. Robert E. Speer (1920-24), also Secretary of a Mission Board, is regarded as one of the greatest churchmen and pulpit orators of this quarter century. He is perhaps most representative of the church-going public. But most of the Council...
...Cardinal was an outstanding theologian. He was a statesman-labored for Irish peace as well as for Irish freedom...
...several Congressmen by that name, nor one of the several college Presidents, nor one of the several noted doctors including famed ophthalmologists, obstetricians, gynecologists, pathologists, nor one of the well-known clergymen; nor is he General, Admiral, Judge, scientist, editor, theologian, curator, author. He is one of several lawyers and diplomats. He is, in fact, the John William who was born in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, 1873. That makes him 51 years old and just about eight months younger than Calvin Coolidge. It is generally reported that as a child he was precocious. As the campaign goes...
...Perfectly hopeless" was the answer of the Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the theology expressed in the recent speech here of Dr. John Reach Straton. "If religion must fight science in order to exist, then religion is dead. The modern theologian accepts the decisions of the expert getting the best help he can from the scientist. We make theology as we go along, because we do not want to have any dogmatism...
...Harvard Christian Association, under whose management the address has been arranged, had hoped to have some theologian of less liberal views than Dr. Grant debate with him on religious, topics of the hour. The logical person, however, Rev. John Roach Stratton, rector of Calvary Church, New York, has declined the invitation to be on the platform at the same time as Dr. Grant. Nevertheless there is a possibility that he will appear at the University at some later date...