Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Dec. 10 there is an article on religion in which that able and distinguished theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, in his discourse on the subject speaks disparagingly of its powers-"For it lifts up its voice, but only to protest. It cannot command." . . . It is quite evident that Dr. Schweitzer is not cognizant of recent religious activities in the U. S. I refer, in particular, to the Legion of Decency recently organized by the Catholic Church...
...vacant by the retirement last October of Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge. Once a bank clerk like his father, Walter Matthews had been dean of Exeter Cathedral, changed posts after annoying his Bishop by inviting Nonconformists into his pulpit (TIME, July 2). An able philosopher and theologian. Dean Matthews gets $10,000 a year at St. Paul's, will be poorer than he was at Exeter because he must give part of his stipend to his good friend Dean Inge...
...there is no stir among the dry leaves of theology. Never have I seen such dearth and deadness. My impression is that the Anglican church is dead and knows it, and that the free churches are dead and do not know it-but they are finding out. A famous theologian told me yesterday that the churches cannot go on as they are for more than 20 years...
...tortured by the half sounds of music. Born of a solid ecclesiastical family, he is a low churchman, an arch-Tory, a rabble-hater. His successor, whose appointment the Dean recommended to his King, is Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, 53, dean of Exeter Cathedral. An able theologian and philosophy professor, Dr. Matthews is a religious modernist and far from gloomy. His latest book is a reply to Britain's unorthodox pundit: The Adventures of Gabriel in His Search of Mr. Shaw. This year he scandalized his diocese and caused a "petition of regret" to be circulated when...
...years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson who solved the mystery of Christopher Marlowe's death...