Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Work v. Theology. The idea of labor as a form of prayer is central at Agape, as it is at the 13-year-old community at lona, off the Scottish coast (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947). This is the time in history, thinks Vinay, when cooperative manual work is the essential...
Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who...
But grandfather had other ideas. When John Foster graduated from high school, Diplomat Foster sent his grandson to Switzerland for six months to study French. In 1904-the year when Pastor Dulles gave up his church to take the chair of Apologetics at the Auburn Theological Seminary-John Foster began...
No sticklers for the letter of the law, the sufis met the un believer as near as they could to his own doctrinal ground. No doubt Islam suffered some theological dilution in this process, but its tribes increased wonderfully. Followers of sufism converted the animist Berbers of North Africa, and...
The man Yale picked for next year is the Rev. John Courtney Murray, 46, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), cucumber-cool intellectual who teaches theology at Woodstock (Md.) College, but is famed far beyond. Father Murray is a towering figure among U.S. Catholic scholars. A polite and learned defender...