Word: theophile
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...beautiful clothes made of pink and lavender nylon, even the latest rockets cannot penetrate Heaven, and the Devil is full of uranium. These are some of the up-to-the-minute theories of small-fry theology turned up in a survey of sixto ten-year-olds conducted by Professor Theophil Thun, 59, of the Padogogische Akademie (Teachers College) in Paderborn, Germany. Professor Thun was less interested in theology than in charting the juvenile sense of sin, and his findings indicate that at six as well as at 60, sin often seems whatever is most fun-such as "scuffling and kicking...
Died. Bishop Theophil Wurm, 84, German Protestantism's most consistent and outspoken critic of Naziism after Hitler's rise to power; in Stuttgart, Germany. At war's end, Bishop Wurm set about reviving and consolidating the remnants of the Protestant federation which Hitler had smashed in 1933, succeeded in getting almost all Protestant faiths to join forces in a powerful new German Evangelical Church...
...only prominent churchman not on hand was the one man chiefly responsible for bringing the unification about-Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg. The white-bearded grand old man of German Protestantism, who turned 80 last month, was too ill to attend...
Mercy Plea. Niemoller joined Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Stuttgart and other Germans in pleading mercy for his country. The delegates agreed with their German colleagues that the Allies' Potsdam declaration had not been carried out. Then they passed resolutions, significantly read to the press by the Archbishop of Canterbury, protesting...
...Nazi leaders are waging war against Christianity," Bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg told a Lutheran conference last month...