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...pastor should never enter the homes of his parishioners. "If you do," one instructor warned, "the mantle of Elijah will surely fall from your shoulders." In Scotland, as a student of the established church, Pastor Dibelius learned differently. Back in Germany, after months of observing the ways of his Calvinist brethren, he startled some of his colleagues by mixing freely with his parishioners and encouraging them to be active in the life of the church. Once, while he was ill. he got his congregation to run the church for themselves-"My one great achievement as a pastor...
...conservative guest challenged the soundness of Holyoke's religious principles, but his colleague John Barnard declared him to be as orthodox a Calvinist as any men: yet too much to a gentleman . . . to cram his principles down another man's throat.' 'Then he must be the man,' said the governor, and Holyoke was elected...
...absorption with parallels-despite the axiom that parallel lines never meet. Moral indignation rather than insight has combed over the facts; and in the end The Crucible not only omits something from its picture of Salem, but takes the life out of its inhabitants. The psychological tragedy of fierce Calvinist repression that erupted in the hysterical visions of young girls, and exploded in the hysterical reactions of their elders, is badly slighted in The Crucible; through blurring what is the real point of Salem, Miller makes mere wraiths and mouthpieces of his characters. The play is curiously unmoving; while...
...side of the Reformation which modern Protestantism tends to neglect is the overarching sense of vocation, the Calvinist and Lutheran drive to participate in the whole of this actual world and to bring all of it under the judgment of God...What we imagine to be the Protestant tradition, the Puritan would disown as a flight from responsible exercise of power or influence...
Martin, a reedlike, sensitive-looking man, was the tenth child of a Calvinist minister. After the Geneva Conservatory and a hitch in Switzerland's standing army, he settled down to a life of teaching and composing. A visit to Paris shook him out of his native conservatism: he experimented with radical rhythmical structures, later with the twelve-tone technique, but absorbed only what he wanted from them and went his own way. His musical language now reflects both Schoenberg and Debussy, but its message is personal. The Violin Concerto conveys a sense of warmth and tragedy; his oratorio Golgotha...