Word: theologians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean of Christ Church, and therefore of an Oxford College and a cathedral both, the Very Reverend John Lowe has been at Oxford for nine years, but few Oxonians would claim to know him well. He is a spare and stooped theologian, unfailingly polite to everyone-and just as unfailingly aloof. He gives no tutorials, has made few academic changes, seldom even invites anyone in to tea. But last week all Oxford was talking about John Lowe. He had just been made vice chancellor, the nearest thing Oxford has to a president (the chancellorship, at present held by Lord Halifax...
Last week, in the pages of the Christian Century, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked "continental" theology for having its head in the clouds. His target was the continental theologians' chief spokesman, Karl Barth...
...Says Theologian Niebuhr: Barth is preaching a dangerous doctrine. The care of the Church is most certainly our care, and to prove it, he cites Saint Paul (I Corinthians 12). Earth's emphasis on "what we cannot do" is really a temptation to Christians "to share the victory and the glory of the risen Lord" without undergoing the trials, perplexities and decisions -the "crucifixion of the self which is the scriptural presupposition of a new life...
...sharp that it seemed humanly impossible to reconcile the conflicting views. Temple was presiding, with his usual unruffled skill. "How will this do?" he asked, and read a few scribbled sentences. There was an awed silence, broken by two voices, one conveying the grave congratulations of a European theologian and the other from a U.S. delegate who said "Archbishop, you tickle me pink...
...more than 40 years, Temple's prime concern was to shorten the distance that separates most people from the church. He was a deep theologian who never lost the common touch. He became a socialist by 1906, when socialists were rare. In World War I, to his own vast amusement, he was put on a list of dangerous people compiled by Scotland Yard. In 1942, after he had led the Malvern Conference with its sweeping social program, Cartoonist David Low (no lover of prelates) drew him as a Samaritan among the super-godly...