Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was the rabbi of a Manhattan congregation at 22, but he was torn between his own theological liberalism and the unbending Orthodox Judaism he preached. "I worked hard," he said later, "to say something in my sermons that I believed and that would also appeal to the...
Last week Dr. Kaplan, a courtly, white-goateed scholar with almost half a century in the rabbinate behind him, walked into the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifteen hundred guests had gathered for the first in a series of testimonial dinners celebrating his 70th birthday (June n). He heard...
Psychiatrists and clergymen, meeting over the ailing psyche of modern man, still eye one another suspiciously. Rare is the churchman who makes systematic use of psychiatric techniques in his ministry to souls; rare is the analyst who lives and works upon specific premises of religious faith. One exception is Karl...
Also receiving awards were H. P. Hatch '93, professor emeritus, Episcopal Theological School, for work on New Testament manuscripts; Amado Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, for Spanish philological research; and Herbert Deickmann, associate, professor of Romance Languages, for studies on the development and structure of Diderot's thought.
French-born John Calvin founded the University of Geneva in 1559, and its students helped make the explicit, consistent, theological structure of Calvinism into the most influential and powerful Reformation church in Europe. Chief addition of Calvin to Luther's doctrine of justification by faith was the emphasis upon...