Word: rector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planned revolutionary government's declaration on relations with the church. With great good luck, Thielicke avoided either a rifle .bullet or a prison cell. After the Nazi collapse, Thielicke started his career over again, as a professor of theology at Tubingen. In 1951 he was made rector of Tubingen University and later president of the Council of German Rectors. He came to Hamburg in 1954 as the first dean of the newly founded Theological Faculty...
...already hard-beset mother was caught between the doctor's strict orders that the child be kept out of doors and the rector's badgering insistence that he go to school, Sunday school and church. The climax of childhood comes with Sean being caned at school and rebelliously striking back...
Thirty-nine years before the gleam of lanterns from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church warned Paul Revere of approaching redcoats, a short, stocky Anglican divine, clad in near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...
What Fish Are About. The principle has worked remarkably well in Cozzens' books. The Last Adam etched a memorable portrait of a crusty, lusty New England doctor who serves the Life Drive rather better than he does his patients. Men and Brethren features a tough-minded Episcopal rector who copes with the eternal muddle of sin without sentimentalizing the sinner. The Just and the Unjust, the best U.S. novel ever fashioned around the law, focuses on a small-town murder trial; it illuminates both the law's technicalities and its larger meaning, its limitations and its glories (which...
...hope," said Rector and Headmaster John O. Patterson of Connecticut's Kent School, "that this meeting may be a means of regaining and restating what general education could be within a Christ-centered culture.'' Rector Patterson was addressing a group of theologians and scholars of many faiths who had come for a special symposium marking Episcopal Kent's soth birthday. Now published in book form (The Christian Idea of Education; Yale University; $4), the papers and discussions of that symposium cast fresh light on one of modern education's greatest lacks and needs...