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Sensitivity training is a therapeutic method that is gaining ground both as a means of personal development and of resolving supposed or real communication problems between individuals within organizations. Its goal, as the name implies, is to make participants more sensitive to one another, to cultivate mutual respect, and, through role-playing games and interaction in which complete honesty is a precondition, to release participants from inhibitions and frustrations embedded in their social wiring as a result of their individual social backgrounds. In the organizational context, the...

Handley C. G. Moule was an evangelical Anglican theologian, writer, poet and the Bishop of Durham from 1901 through 1920. His father, Henry Moule, was the Vicar of Fordington for over 50 years. Moule wrote over 60 Christian books and pamphlets, and two of his best are combined in this volume entitled HANDLEY MOULE TIMES TWO. The first essay, MESSAGES FROM THE EPISTLE OF THE HEBREWS, was first published in 1909 while Moule held the position of Bishop of Durham. The second work, PHILIPPIAN STUDIES, details lessons in faith and love from St. Paul's EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS. It was published...

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America

Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the peoples they encountered abroad, but those foreign peoples ended up changing the missionaries. Missionary experience made many of these Americans critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, the missionaries and their children liberalized their own society. Protestants Abroad...

Jan Hus burned at the stake in 1415 for believing in the authority of the Bible over that of the Catholic Church. As he was burning, it is believed he said, “Today you will cook a goose,” for Hus means goose in Czech, “but 100 years from now, will come a swan that you will neither catch nor boil!” 102 years after Hus’ declaration, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the doors of the church in Wittenberg, starting the protestant reformation.

- the contexts that shaped his social and intellectual world, such as previous theological...

However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to...