Word: theologians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significantly, the editorial chairman who penned these words was himself listed as an ardent pacifist in the '20s. He is Union Seminary's famed theologian, highbrowed, sharp-eyed Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, and behind him are a group of potent church sponsors disturbed by a belief that every existing interdenominational paper is strongly pacifist in tone and no longer reflects the sentiment of most ministers...
...real intellectual and spiritual leader-stout, brisk, erudite, 59-year-old Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of York. Son of an Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple was an Oxford don of philosophy at 23, a headmaster at 29, a bishop at 39, an archbishop at 47. A famed theologian and an ardent exponent of the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, he is likely to be first president of the still-organizing World Council of Churches. Said he at the conference...
...counterpoint and impressively dull masses of sound. The quartet was musical sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true. Its themes bickered away in endless mediocrity, in a ceaseless spewing forth of notes and more notes--the whole thing suggestive of some mediaeval theologian spinning his scholastic cobwebs out of a decrepit, hacked-over text. It was most strongly suggestive, however, of four extremely competent musicians going through a terrific technical work...
Professor Douglas C. Macintosh, prominent theologian, of Yale University, has been appointed Dudleian Lecturer at Harvard University for the current academic year...
Last week Theologian Edwin E. Aubrey of Chicago gave future meetings something to strive toward. "I do not regard the democratic way of life as the supreme end of man," said he, "but I regard it as the best means of realizing that supreme end. For that reason I believe that it is of the utmost importance that science and religion should learn to live together not in mere toleration, but in active cooperation, that through these supporting attitudes of religion and science and through the discipline which each requires, men may be enabled to meet the requirements...