Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Switzerland's Karl Earth, founder of the potent "neo-orthodox" movement in modern Protestantism, has so far completed six massive volumes of his Kirch-liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library...
Speaking before over a hundred people, most of whom were Harvard student and instructors, he said that "being a liberal theologian is like being an anarchistic American...
Thus last week, in typical fashion, the U.S. welcomed one of the most extraordinary men of modern times. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, theologian, organist, interpreter of Bach's music, and one of the world's great humanitarians, has a life of achievement behind him which few contemporary men can equal. Throughout the civilized world he is also quietly honored as few are honored in their lifetime-for what...
...speeches from their own and visiting churchmen. They heard New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed a hazy resolution citing the "fundamental incompatibility" between Christianity and "certain...
...Beacon Press; $1.50) crammed to the covers with haymaker denunciations of his numerous enemies. He received word that two new denominations had voted to join his American Council of Christian Churches. But no less rewarding was the news that came from Madison, Wis. Before the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Theologian John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary had referred to some of McIntire's activities as "unscrupulous vilification." Exclaimed McIntire delightedly, "They're getting to be very conscious of the American Council...