Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 136 years, the Harvard Divinity School now has only three full-time professors, including its dean, 79-year-old Willard Sperry, who is also Harvard's "chaplain." Its ten other faculty members are borrowed from other schools of the university or are part-time lecturers. The 100-man...
To help pick additional faculty members (and a new dean to replace retiring Dean Sperry), the Harvard Corporation appointed a board of distinguished Protestant clergymen, including Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun and Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin. Harvard's hope...
In the 58 years since, Methodist McConnell has stayed close enough to earth to become the best-known preacher of the "social gospel" in U.S. Protestantism. In By the Way (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $3.50), a chatty autobiography well furnished with preacher stories, the controversial patriarch of U.S. Methodists, now 80, takes...
Young Francis thought out a different definition of a loyal Methodist. By the time he went to the seminary, he had decided that aggressive good works were more important in a Christian than theological niceties. He found few to agree with him. "Preachers," he recalls, "were supposed to stick to...
His weakness for complicated railroad routes, crossroad puzzles and detective novels is more easily explained as the recreation of a naturally acute mind. Because he has a horror of propaganda, his whodunits (the most ingenious has the Knoxious title Double Cross-Purposes) are less theological than Chesterton's Father...