Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Tertius van Dyke, 72, dean emeritus of Connecticut's Hartford Theological Seminary, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church ("Religion makes a very small dent upon New York"), son and biographer of clergyman-educator Henry van Dyke; of" pneumonia; in New Milford, Conn.
One by one every woman of child-bearing age in the village, including the most repellent and chaste, turns out to be pregnant. There are, naturally, cases of attempted suicide and abortion and indignant husbands and shame-stricken spinsters. What seems to be an outbreak of mass parthenogenesis has raised...
Churchmen should not be shy about showmanship, urged Psychologist Dr. James G. Ranck, lecturer in psychology and religion at Drew University. "The drive-in church, the mobile pulpit, the church in a restaurant, the nightclub for college students which conducts a lecture series on which theological school faculty and other...
Missionary zeal once beat strong in Judaism; the Pharisees, said Jesus, would "compass sea and land to make one proselyte" (Matthew 23:15). This proselytizing urge vanished in the Diaspora, but the time may have come to compass land and sea again. So thinks Robert Gordis, professor of Bible at...
This noble exit from history's stage was written by Shakespeare for Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, one of the great Englishmen of his time. This biography, the first appropriate to the scope and splendor of Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic...