Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School of Divinity. "In Europe, it would be a group which only royalty could command. The presence of all these people and the fact that it could take place under private auspices says something very good and very important about this country." In a mood of reminiscence and evaluation. Theologian Tillich was summing up TIME'S 40th anniversary party, held last week in New York City. "All these people." as Tillich described them, were 284 subjects of cover stories in every field of human endeavor, who had gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria to help celebrate the birthday. The party...
...crowd that had what one columnist called "staggering diversity," ex-prizefighter chatted with industrialist, baseball manager interpreted ideas expressed by theologian, and one U.S. Senator demanded that another yield a beautiful actress. Items: . . . Before dinner Monday night, Joe Louis and Henry Ford II held an animated conversation about the Brown Bomber's days as a 55?-an-hour assembly-line worker in the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant back in 1933. "I told Mr. Ford," said Louis, "that I went on a leave of absence and haven't been back since." "We talked about...
When New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel and his wife Edna arrived, Mrs. Stengel announced: "I'm Mrs. Stengel. We're in baseball." After Theologian Tillich's speech at the Monday dinner, Casey, in his own conversational style, offered his interpretation to the guests at his table. They were bewildered...
Addressing a gathering of people noted for their professional excellence, Theologian Paul Tillich spoke of the ambiguity of perfection and found cause for uneasiness about the dimension of culture in the contemporary world. Excerpts...
...sampled by their local Protestant Council in New York, held no beliefs that would prevent their switching to some other Protestant denomination. Despite this evidence of doctrinal tolerance, church merger negotiations in the U.S. are being quietly balked. At least some of the opposition to church union, argues Methodist Theologian J. Robert Nelson of Oberlin College in the current Theology Today, is so "arbitrary and irresponsible" that he satirically wonders if some Dark Unseen Presence might be behind it. With a bow to C. S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, Nelson suggests seven ways that the Devil might have devised...