Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congregationalist Amos N. Wilder, 59, former professor of New Testament at Chicago Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago. Famed as both poet and theologian (as well as for being the brother of Novelist Thornton), Amos Wilder specializes in the field of eschatology...
...driver deftly dodged a group of bishops and gave plenty of room to an Indian theologian in a white turban. When the street ahead looked reasonably safe again, the driver turned to a newsman standing next to him. "So what are they going to do?" he grumbled. "Save the world...
...Bishop Otto Dibelius of Germany's Evangelical Church, part of whose diocese is in the East zone and who has time and again defied the Communists; Archbishop Michael 62, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark...
...Crank" Robert Graves yet been caught out in any historical blunder which invalidates his findings on the Graeco-Roman side of the problem; though he dared tempt British New Testament experts with valuable money prizes if they could spot one. Together they have even persuaded leading U.S. Protestant Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr to take the book seriously with: "The authors have labored so diligently and within the limits of their presuppositions so honestly, that the volume will be of great service to both Christians and Jews if they have time to read so large a volume and the money...
...Chicago for the World Council of Churches assembly (see RELIGION), Germany's famed Pastor Martin Niemöller lit a long cigar and discussed tobacco as the hallmark of the theologian. Puffed he: "If he smokes cigarettes, he's liberal. If he smokes cigars, he's orthodox. If he smokes a pipe, he's dialectic. If he doesn't ( smoke, then he cannot be a theologian." Niemöller then admitted that the theory was not his, but that of Switzerland's pipe-smoking Theologian Karl Barth...