Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Shailer Mathews, 78, liberal theologian, dean emeritus of the University of Chicago Divinity School; in Chicago. Dean from 1908 to 1933, he was a lifetime fighter against religious obscurantism, an influential champion of the church's practical concern with social problems. He was never ordained, explained he preferred the greater freedom of action and speech allowed a layman...
Those who shout "Peace--It's Wonderful" seem unwilling to face the fact that were it possible to achieve "peace," even the peace of Vichy, with the Nazis, it would still be physically and morally degrading. A theologian even more eminent than Professor Hocking has made the perfectly sound, biologically realistic point that it would be a tragedy for us in the United States if Hitlerism should triumph,--but that the tragedy would be vastly greater, and more sordid for us, if Hitlerism should indeed be defeated without our sharing in its overthrow...
...Next week that rarity, a woman theologian, becomes a professor at Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. She is Dr. Adelaide Teague Case, for the last 22 years a professor at Columbia's Teachers College...
...last week declared the world's most influential Protestant theologian, Swiss Calvinist Karl Barth. So saying, he reversed his pre-war stand that Christianity need not concern itself with such mundane struggles, that war never solves anything...
...Barth is a theologian's theologian. Known to few men in the pew, he nevertheless profoundly affects them at third hand-for the theologians whom he influences influence the preachers of the Christian world. Nazis ousted him from his chair at Bonn in 1935 for his resistance to Hitler, and now he teaches in his native Basle. Last week the first copy of his latest book, A Letter to Great Britain from Switzerland, was Clippered to TIME. Its influence will be enormous-and more immediate than usual. Wrote Dr. Barth...