Word: cadman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said Dean Ernest Cadman Colwell of the University of Chicago's Divinity School: "You can't establish the Christian position in relation to conscription by quoting isolated passages from the Bible. ... I long ago stopped using proof-text to justify conduct." Director Paul Burt of the University of Illinois' Wesley Foundation told a pious anecdote about a proof-text layman who turned to the Bible for guidance in his life work, opened it at random to "Judas went and hanged himself." On his second try the alarmed layman hit on "Go thou and do likewise...