Word: theologicall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-three student ministers quit their jobs last week. The jobs were at the mills and factory workbenches of such corporations as U.S. Steel, International Harvester and American Can. They quit them to return to their eschatology and homiletics, form criticism and patristics at ten theological seminaries around the country...
In 1950 Dean Marshal L. Scott of the Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations started a ministers-in-industry course in Pittsburgh, and brought it last year to the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. Since Dean Scott's course began, similar programs have been organized in Boston, New Haven and...
Died. Bishop Francis John McConnell, 82, controversial Methodist exponent of "the social gospel"; in Lucasville, Ohio. Son of a Methodist clergyman, he studied at Ohio Wesleyan and Boston universities, and as a young pastor, shocked orthodox churchgoers by insisting that aggressive good works were more important than theological niceties. As...
Belloc held that "all political questions are ultimately theological." In the debate with the rationalists, he became chief Roman Catholic protagonist, wrote political novels as a counterblast to those of H. G. Wells, pamphlets at George Bernard Shaw and the Fabian Socialists. He converted G. K. Chesterton to the Roman...
The Call is a sacred thing, and ministers who talk about "being hired" are no friends of Dr. Schuette. He urges clergymen to consider themselves God's emissaries: "I fear there is a tendency among theological students to give far too much consideration to the material advantages and disadvantages...