Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANY reporters have found that covering the current news in the U.S. South often calls for faster-thanusual footwork. Among them is one of TIME'S Atlanta correspondents, Calvin ("Bud") Trillin, 25, who has become a familiar figure to leaders on both sides of integration skirmishes...
Many Protestants glory in this freedom and individualism-and many of them worry about it. One of the earliest worriers was the founder of Protestantism's Reformed tradition-John Calvin of Geneva. Wrote he to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. chief architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer: "The churches are so divided that human fellowship is scarcely now of any repute ... So much does this concern me that if I could be of any service. I would not begrudge traversing ten seas for this purpose...
...Movement. Calvin crossed no seas at all, but one of his modern followers is just as ready to cross stormy seas in the cause of Christian unity. He is a squarejawed, hazel-eyed man of action, whose three euphonious names -Eugene Carson Blake-have become synonymous in church circles with efficient organization, knowing diplomacy, and zeal for unity...
...predestination Calvin added such corollary conclusions as "particular redemption" (God's picking and choosing the elect), "moral inability" (the impossibility of doing anything to save oneself), "invincible grace" (the impossibility of doing anything to damn oneself if God has decreed otherwise) and "final perseverance" (the guarantee that all the elect will reach heaven-no matter what...
...tautology that took the U.S. back three decades to New England-born President Calvin Coolidge's remark: "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results...