Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory at Montreal. An austere, hard-driving administrator, Sir Oliver was brought up under the stern eye of his theologian father, made a brilliant record at Oxford and stayed on to become a don and dean of Queen's College. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow when he was drafted into the Ministry of Supply...
Have statistics got anything to do with religion? Not much, concludes Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. U.S. Protestantism may not be losing ground numerically, but its religious vitality is slipping...
...appraisal of Niemöller, pronounced in 1940 by a fellow theologian, Dr. Karl Earth of Switzerland, plucked a revealing thread of consistency from the pastor's contradictory career. The appraisal still seemed to fit the postwar cut of Niemöller's jib. Wrote Dr. Earth: "Do not forget that Niemöller has always been, and remains today, a good-a too good-German. ... He has never ceased to be a fervent German nationalist...
Richard Hooker, whose name few modern laymen recognize. Author McNeill calls Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity "the crowning literary expression of the English Reformation. . . ." McNeill credits 16th Century Theologian Hooker with being the "primary inspirer" of the rationalistic approach to theology, whose views on church government might well be useful to the present-day church-unity movement: "It is far from impossible that the future reunion of the churches of the Reformation . . " will follow the lines of Hooker's broad-church episcopal theory. . . .But even if he should fail to win us to agreement with...
...already achieved far more than most men do in a lifetime. He was recognized as one of Europe's leading organists; his biography of Bach had been hailed as "a new revelation." As a Doctor of Philosophy, he was known for his work on Kant. As a theologian, he had been appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College of St. Thomas...