Word: institutionalist
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...selection.“It didn’t escape my notice that I might be vulnerable to an approach, so of course I assembled self-interested arguments against that,” Knowles said. “It’s hard, when faced with such a generous institutionalist like President Bok, not to feel the same way.”—Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Anton S. Troianovski can be reached at atroian@fas.harvard.edu...
...didn’t escape my notice that I might be vulnerable to an approach, so of course I assembled self-interested arguments against that,” Knowles said. “It’s hard, when faced with such a generous institutionalist like President Bok, not to feel the same...
Barth grandly overlooked secular and theological developments that displeased him. Although he was one of the founders of the World Council of Church es, and his writings in the 1930s had helped create the climate for ecumenism, he later came to criticize the organization as "too institutionalist." Such aloofness from trends others thought relevant inevitably won him criticism. Reinhold Niebuhr, once something of a follower, dismissed Barth's politics as naive and his theology as suitable only for catacomb Christianity. Other contemporary theologians charged that Barth paid too little attention to the role of history and sociology...
...smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression of the character of the Cardinal; not being sure whether he was an absolute institutionalist, or verging perhaps on sentimentality was a fault of the author rather than the actor...
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