Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a new confidence in the U.S., born of the harvest and nurtured with the sweat of work, that matched the weather and the scene. At Amsterdam's first Assembly of the World Council of Churches (TIME, Sept. 13), Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had gloomily commented: "There is so little health in the whole of our modern civilization that one cannot find the island of order from which to proceed against disorder...
...Network. Among the assets he brings to any enterprise are his organizing and administrative ability. He applies both to his personal life so formidably that there is never a paper left on his desk or a question left unanswered in any committee over which he presides. Says Theologian Niebuhr: "He gets through a meeting faster and better than anyone I know...
...cooperation of 145 churches at a world level." But what the world mostly heard were sounds of argument. At the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the chief debate seemed remarkably like the East-West bickering in U.N. The debaters: U.S. Layman John Foster Dulles and Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka...
...Theologian Baillie's lucidity does not come from dodging complications. "Most of the great heresies arose from an undue desire for simplification," he dryly observes. He even tackles the place of paradox in theology...
First Grammarian. One central paradox of Christianity has always been the nature of Christ. Was He God or man or somewhere in a nebulous in-between? Theologian Baillie's orthodox answer includes both the "historial Jesus" and the "Christ of faith...