Word: theologians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a theologian thinks the conflict started last century when the advances of science prompted agnostics to declare that it could supersede religion. Result was a rapidly increasing secularization of both men and nations, a trend which Conference Member F. Ernest Johnson of Columbia last week summed up in two points: 1) "from the earliest times until the modern era man's religion has been inseparable from his daily affairs and related to every phase of his life, and our age has made a sharp break with the past in this respect"; 2) "this secularization has occurred during...
...mountains of Washington last summer, Walter Marshall Horton (in his own words) "saved civilization on paper just as it broke down in fact." Professor Horton is a softspoken, sparse-haired theologian who teaches at Oberlin College. He likes to travel, often turns his trips into theological travelogues (Contemporary English Theology, Contemporary Continental Theology). When he took a sabbatical leave in 1938-39 he toured Australia, the East Indies and Asia, attended the decennial meeting of the International Missionary Council at Madras (TIME, Dec. 26, 1938). That busman's holiday stirred up notions which thoughtful Theologian Horton had long pondered...
Last week appeared the result: Can Christianity Save Civilization? (Harpers; $2). The Religious Book Club snapped it up as its July choice-the sixth time since 1930 that the R. B. C. had picked a Horton tome. Whether or not they accepted Theologian Horton's answer (a determined "Yes"), believers of all creeds-and of none-found his latest book as full of close-knit arguments as a Jonathan Edwards sermon was full of hellfire. U. S. controversialists who wish to argue with Dr. Horton, however, must wait until fall: he is on another jaunt...
Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...
...Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...