Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A couple of young ministers from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Ky. started it in 1942. Clarence Jordan was 30 and specializing in city mission work, and Martin England was 36, taking a refresher course after missionary duty in Burma. With $59 between them they took an option on...
Basque-born Unamuno had a Spanish flair for paradox-he insisted that the fictional Don Quixote was a greater and a realer man than Don Quixote's creator, Cervantes. This kind of jugglery between the balloons of fiction and the cannonballs of fact made Unamuno an enigmatic figure-and...
For the Affirmative. To Graham's defense this week comes Dean Elmer George Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary. Billy Graham, he writes, "does break through into human personality and seems to give thousands of Protestants a dynamic gospel which highly intellectualized and organized Christianity fails to give."
For the Negative. An articulate anti-Grahamite is Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr, who has done more than any man in the U.S. to hose away the froth of religious liberalism with the cold high-pressure stream of neo-orthodox polemic. The orthodoxy of Evangelist Graham, Niebuhr complains...
Graham, Niebuhr thinks, is a throwback to the theological past. "Graham still thinks within the framework of pietistic moralism. He thinks the problem of the atom bomb could be solved by converting the people to Christ, which means that he does not recognize the serious perplexities of guilt and responsibility...