Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio Pastors' Convention, meeting in Columbus, where the United Mine Workers were also gathered (see p. 19), sent Mr. Lewis its felicitations and an invitation to come talk. Mr. Lewis went. In no pie-in-the-sky mood, he voiced a layman's proposition which any theologian worth his salt could turn upside down: "Before men can worship, they must eat." Said Preacher Lewis: "I believe in God and the Christian church. I believe any country devoted solely to materialism lacks something. You can draw your object lesson from Germany. . . . The church in Germany has lost the confidence...
...Temple, a prelate who is much more highly esteemed by world churchmen than his superior, the Archbishop of Canterbury (see p. 25), is a sober theologian, a leader in the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, with many friends in the U. S. One friend, Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, lately returned from a long stay in England. Dr. Niebuhr drafted, and some of his colleagues rewrote, a statement in which, this week, the Archbishop of York's position was strongly echoed, over the signatures of 33 of the nation's most influential Protestants...
...explanation of Niemöller's militancy was offered by lank, twinkling-eyed Karl Barth, Swiss-born theologian who greatly influenced the Confessional group before his exile from Germany. Barth, famed for his gloomy view (lately modified) that man can do little here below, slyly ascribed Niemöller's position to Original Sin-man's heritage from Adam. Wrote Barth to the Anglican Bishop of Chichester, in a letter which found its way into a Rotterdam newspaper last week...