Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm-who has since become a dilettante theologian ,nd preacher to his household-called upon his God so often that Gott Mit Uns ("God with us") became an international joke. On the Allied side, however, plenty of preachers dragged the deity into the war; some of them lived to apologize...
...specialist in the study of cities (he believes that cities are organisms and obey laws of organic growth-TIME, Aug. 22), Dr. Bailey admits he is no theologian but insists that he is a linguist. He paraphrases the word "Gospel" (good news) as "You'd be surprised!" Dr. Bailey contends that the original "You'd be surprised!" were written as "news flashes" in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic, that they should be rendered today in journalese. Thus he translates "Good Samaritan" as "good sport," "wise virgins" as "smart girls," "laying up a treasure" as "making a pile," "repent...
Under the presidency of one of the world's great Christians, Dr. John R. Mott, they were delegates to the second meeting of the International Missionary Council. Among them were representatives of every Protestant and Orthodox Church. The 45 delegates from North America included the famed woman theologian, Dr. Georgia Harkness; two Bishops, Methodist James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco and Episcopalian Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio; and World's No. 1 Missionary Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, lofty-minded Methodist emissary to high-caste Hindus, who had just come from a tour of U. S. colleges (TIME...
Presbyterian Princeton Seminary last week took a strategic seat in the theological van. To Princeton as guest professor (one year) of Systematic Theology -and possibly to fill permanently its Hodge professorship in that subject- came one of the ablest of European theologians, Dr. Emil Brunner, late of the University of Zurich. Princeton thus reinforced its support of the "New Orthodoxy," the new theology based on old revealed truths and largely associated with the name of Switzerland's Karl Earth (TIME, April 25). Often bracketed with Earth, but not his follower, Dr. Brunner is a Bible theologian, orthodox enough...
...theologian's theologian, one of the most famed in the world, is Dr. Karl Barth. Exiled three years ago from Germany, his adopted land and spiritual home, he has settled in Switzerland, his birthplace. U. S. Protestants have been slow to approve and understand this Calvinist, although. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the ablest of Protestant theologians, has been influenced by him. and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian stronghold, has shown leanings toward Barthianism. Of European conditions upon which Barthianism battens. Manhattan clergymen lately were given a vivid picture of Dr. Adolf Keller, Swiss colleague of Dr. Barth. Declaring...