Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more lyric vein, Mr. Babson concludes that the only safe hedges are things like health, culture, children, friendship, birds, flowers, the sea and the sky. And Mr. Babson advises against entering any period of inflation or revolution without a clear conscience. "Jesus may not have been much of a theologian," admits this moderator of the Congregationalist Church. "He, however, was a real economist...
...apprentice in Basle young Holbein found a friend and patron in the great Theologian Erasmus whom he painted many times. The younger Holbein made a name for himself in Basle. Came the depression of the 1520's, however, and Erasmus sent him packing off to England with a letter of introduction to Sir Thomas More (Utopia). Holbein's first series of English portraits were not of court celebrities but of the scholars of More's circle...
...they attracted 900,000 people in nine weeks. Said Moody: "It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ, and it is a pleasure the angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled Presbyterian church, but with all his talent for vigorous organization he could not fill it. To build from the ground up he established...
...cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light, he thus bids Apollyon scat : "It leaves you flat, and it leaves every human being flat, and the thing for us to do is to go ahead and forget it as a piece of silly nonsense. . . . The only thing you can do with an unchangeable sequence...
...publications, Christendom is better printed, has a secular-looking red cover. Full of theology, philosophy and urbane erudition, the first issue contains a short story by Zona Gale, articles by the Archbishop of York, Philosophers William Ernest Hocking and Gregory Vlastos, Dean Willard L. Sperry of Harvard Divinity School, Theologian John C. Bennett, Executive Secretary Claris Edwin Silcox of Canada's Social Service Council...