Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a man defies biography. The writer of it should have both the religious passion to comprehend how a man who sometimes seemed almost a devil could also be almost a saint; and the theological dispassion to talk, without raising his voice, about the most controversial Christian of modern times...
But how can a man be saved if he cannot be sure that God is good and will save him? "Then," says Luther, "I grasped that . . . through grace and sheer mercy, God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I [went] through open doors into paradise." Luther had discovered the guiding theological...
Titled, like all such letters, from its first two Latin words, Humani Generis (Of Mankind), the encyclical cracked down hard on Roman Catholic teachers, priests and philosophers who for various reasons are drifting away from the dogmas of the church and the orthodox system of thought laid down by St...
Also on the Central Committee's agenda were plans for the next full meeting of the World Council, scheduled for Evanston, Ill. in 1953. Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, expressed "grave doubt if we will be able to meet in 1953...
Many of the film's good points are curiously bound up with its faults. By some elaborately contrived plotting, the Charles Schnee script has taste enough never to allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him...