Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Union leaders were first put on the carpet last November, because Ray had invited Vanderbilt University's Dr. Nels Ferre, a liberal Christian theologian to give the principal speech at their state convention. General board members' heard that Congregationalist Ferre does not believe in the virgin birth,-and they quickly canceled his appearance. Since then, the board has been digging into charges that the Baptist student pastors have been guiding their young congregations independent of regular church supervision...
...Swiss Theologian Karl Barth, 67, has given modern Protestants a lot to think about. In the '20s, almost singlehanded, Barth took Luther and Calvin down from the dusty bookshelves where liberal Protestants had put them, and roughly recalled theologians everywhere to some fundamentals.† In the '30s, Barth was one of the first European churchmen to attack the Nazis. But since the late '40s, Barth has played a different kind of role. In the political and spiritual battle of Communism and the democracies, he has become Europe's most respected Christian preacher of neutralism...
When Gollwitzer left the labor camp for the Krasnogorsk indoctrination center, he set out to steep himself in the Marxists' explanation for this Russian misery. The theoreticians there seemed convinced that their system, with all its temporary drawbacks, would ultimately produce a materialist heaven on earth-Theologian Gollwitzer called it a "secularized Christian eschatology." Accordingly, they reasoned themselves into a 1984-type "dream world." Russian professors argued that the prisoners must see things "dialectically." For instance, if the Kremlin planned to erect a magnificent city street on a row of squalid huts, it was as good as there already...
Newspapers seethed with letters demanding that 74-year-old Theologian Hallesby be bounced off the air for his fundamentalist ideas, or defending him as God's prophet to a backsliding world. As the controversy bubbled on, an old theological opponent of Hallesby's, Bishop Kristian Schjelderup, 60, of Hamar, entered the argument. Hallesby's idea of Hell, he said, is based on "doubtful and imperfect interpretations that others are applying to the straight words of Christ...
...time the argument had spread to Sweden and Denmark and inflamed letter-writers had quoted practically the whole Bible, a damnable thing happened to perdition-preaching Theologian Hallesby: he was convicted of tax fraud over a period of at least ten years. He resigned his presidency of the Lutheran Inner Mission Society, stopped preaching, canceled a lecture tour. But the pother he had started went on. Should Hell be preached as part of the Gospel, or shouldn...