Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus began TIME'S cover story (Nov. 24, 1924) on the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, "The Gloomy Dean" of St. Paul's. Since then, TIME has carefully followed and reported the doings of that volatile theologian, up until his death two months ago at the age of...
The same year, Pit's well-developed sense of responsibility gave him another nudge. An earnest young man from Princeton Theological Seminary turned up at Penn Charter one day to recruit delegates to a youth conference. When he asked for volunteers, he was greeted by stony silence; when he...
Van Dusen turned for advice to the greatest Presbyterian preacher and pastor of his time, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Coffin advised him to do what he himself had done: study for a year at Edinburgh, then return for the rest of his training at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Van...
The glory of Union-and sometimes its despair-is its cherished tradition of complete theological freedom. Union theologians have periodically been denounced as heretics by each other as well as by outsiders; like workers in a boiler factory, they become alarmed at any sudden spell of quiet.
Van Dusen himself has been something of an upstream swimmer against the intellectual current prevailing at the seminary during the past two decades. These have been the "neo-orthodox" years of theological through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old...