Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Shortly after he got his Concordat, Hitler got the Protestant Reichsbishop he wanted. In the spring of 1933 Germany's Protestants (Lutheran. Reformed) voluntarily merged into the German Evangelical Church. To head it, the Nazis nominated Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. a friend of Hitler and leader of the Nazified Deutsche Christen (the "German Christians...
...Macintosh has been on the Yale faculty since 1909, as Dwight Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion since 1933. He was Chairman of the Department of Religion of the Yale Graduate School, 1920 to 1938. He was a Chaplain, with the rank of Captain, with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in England and France in 1916, and was Y.M.C.A. Secretary with the American Expeditionary Force in France in 1918. He was ordained in the Baptist Ministry in 1907. He has written extensively on problems of theology...
...Army chaplain in World War I, Parson Spence discouraged crapshooting in camp by rolling sevens himself. As an evangelist, he modernized his revival technique; instead of bringing sinners to the revival, he took the revival to them from house to house. He learned to "tell whom I was hitting by the way they looked over their shoulders to see if the family skeletons were sitting behind them...
...Tucker. (He asked his fellow prelates not to smoke during regular sessions: "I am not a fanatic against smoking but it does seem to me not altogether dignified.") The 500 clerical and lay delegates of the House of Deputies, under their president the Rev. ZeBarney Thorne Phillips of Washington (chaplain of the U. S. Senate), were more noisy, more informal...
...Henry Robbins, Assistant Chaplain to Episcopal students, Christ Church...