Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestantism's foremost theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr.*has written a thoughtful and hardheaded essay on his country's political philosophy. The Irony of American History (Scribner; $2.50) is an odd-sounding title-most native commentaries on U.S. politics stress such words as "challenge," "promise" or "hope." Niebuhr uses his word advisedly. Not so final as tragedy, not so hopeless as pathos, the ironic view is a Christian study of the "unconscious weakness" by which classic American strengths and virtues have subtly developed into shortcomings...
Answered Dr. Davies, citing some graphic samples of Billy Graham's theology: "I do want Dr. Docherty, as a mature theologian, to justify on orthodox grounds the assertion by Dr. Billy Graham that the three persons of the Trinity hold regular conferences in heaven . . . Then I would like Dr. Docherty as a mature Biblical scholar ... to support from Scripture Dr. Graham's assertion that heaven is a 1,600-mile cube containing trees that produce a different kind of fruit each month...
Like any Catholic theologian, Graham Greene thinks of sin as the normal climate of life on earth. But he translates the algebra of theology into the personal terms of stories as human as the tabloids tell-and much more convincing...
Some Baptists and alumni protested hotly that the college was getting smeared with tobacco stains. They warned that if Wake Forest took the money, it might "lose its soul," might even find its name changed to Camel University.* But President Harold Tribble, a Baptist theologian from Charlottesville, paid no heed to the skeptics. He argued and begged at alumni banquets, civic meetings and Baptist groups. He pointed out again & again that the Reynolds Foundation had no intention of trying to run the college or change its name. Finally, half the necessary $15 million...
...change will come mainly through the young people. Many of the fathers I know can't understand what has happened to their children. A friend of mine who is a very successful industrialist is still amazed by the fact that his son is turning into a brilliant theologian; just a short time ago, I talked to the 16-year-old boy whose father runs a chain of retail stores. Father wants me to go into his business, he said. I am the only child. But why should I waste my life in business? I want...