Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respecter of the religious impulse, Mencken has some illuminating things to say about it: "Always, in time of bloodshed, pestilence and poverty, there is what theologians call a great spiritual awakening. But when peace and plenty caress the land the priest has a hard time keeping his flock at prayer, and great numbers desert him altogether. ... I am myself a theologian of considerable gifts, and yet I can no more imagine immortality than I can imagine the Void which existed before matter took form. Neither, I suspect, can the Pope...
William Courtland Robinson has stuck closer to his home town. For ten years, in fact, he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Delhi. Last week he accepted, a position which will take him away from Delhi, to Philadelphia. A conservative theologian, he was made Editor of The Presbyterian (weekly), succeeding Dr. Samuel G. Craig who was ousted (TIME...
...Conversion of a Professor: from Rhetorics to Theology. Confessions of a Mystic", Wednesday: "The Philosophy of a Christian Bishop. His Conception of the Christian Church. Conflicts and Polemics. Christian Intolerance" Monday; "Manicheism and Christianity. The Pessimistic Vision of Life of a Great Theologian. The Rational Theology of a Celtie Monk", Wednesday, January 15. "The World and its History. Past, Present, and Future in the City of God of Saint Augustine". Monday, January 20; "Fifteen Centuries of Augustinianism. Its Influence on Christian Thought in the Middle Ages. During the Reformation and in Modern Times". Wednesday, January...