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...Christendom, the moment in which lightning struck Martin Luther was almost as crucial as the episode of the Damascus road. In Here I Stand (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $4.75), a new biography of the founder of the Reformation in Germany, Roland H. Bainton, a Quaker and a Yale professor of church history, carefully details the character and extent of the great crisis that was set in motion that day. Within 13 tumultuous years the Luther energy had blasted Christianity out of its late-medieval lethargy, ripped the universal church to sectarian shreds, created the Protestant movement and set its main direction...
Honored by the Barter Theater of Abingdon, Va.: Actress Shirley Booth, for her playing of a slattern in Broadway's Come Back, Little Sheba. The award: "one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of," and an acre of Virginia land...
...years many a Protestant pastor has kept himself Emily-posted on such clerical fine points through the pages of the Rev. Nolan B. Harmon's Ministerial Ethics and Etiquette. This week Methodist Harmon brought out his book in a new, revised edition (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $2.50). Some highlights...
Besides keeping up with the duties of his congregation of 2,500 and many outside organizations, Dr. Sockman writes books. Published last week (and the January selection of the Religious Book Club) was his 14th, The Higher Happiness (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $2). Devoted to a discussion of the Beatitudes, it serves as a typical sample of the effortless, untheoretical Sockman way of making religion a seven-day-week concern to his readers and listeners...
...member troupe, with ANTA Executive Secretary Robert Breen playing Hamlet, was bolstered with some veteran Broadway talent: Aline MacMahon as the Queen, Walter Abel as the King, Clarence Derwent as Polonius. But the production, geared for ten outdoor performances in the castle's great courtyard, was born in Abingdon...