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Barth
Swiss theologian. Born in Basel, he studied at the Univs. of Berlin, Tü bingen, and Marburg. In 1911-21 he was a pastor at Safenwil, Switzerland. The tragedy of World War I made him question the liberal theology of his teachers, rooted in post-Enlightenment ideas. With The Epistle to the Romans (1919) he inaugurated a radical turnaround in Protestant thought, initiating a trend toward neoorthodoxy. The work led to his appointment as professor at Gö ttingen (1921), Mü nster (1925), and Bonn (1930). He was a founder of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazi regime; when his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler cost him his chair at Bonn, he returned to Basel. He spoke at the opening of the World Council of Churches in 1948 and visited Rome following the Second Vatican Council.
earth
Third planet in distance outward from the sun. Believed to be about 4.6 billion years old, it is about 92,960,000 mi (149,573,000 km) away from the sun. It orbits the sun at a speed of 18.5 mi (29.8 km) per second, making one complete revolution in 365.25 days. As it revolves, it spins on its axis, rotating once every 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds. The fifth largest planet of the solar system, it has an equatorial circumference of 24,902 mi (40,076 km). Its total surface area is roughly 197,000,000 sq mi (509,600,000 sq km), of which about 29% is land. Earth's atmosphere consists of a mixture of gases, chiefly nitrogen and oxygen. Its only natural satellite, the moon, orbits the planet at a distance of about 238,870 mi (384,400 km). The earth's surface is subdivided into seven continental masses: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, N. America, and S. America. These continents are surrounded by the so-called World Ocean, which is broken down into three major bodies: the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
larch
Any of about 10-12 species of coniferous trees that make up the genus Larix of the pine family, native to cool temperate and sub-Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Though the larch has the pyramid shape typical of conifers, it sheds its short, light-green, needlelike leaves in autumn. The most widespread N. Amer. larch, the tamarack, or eastern larch (L. laricina), matures in 100-200 years, may grow 40-100 ft (12-30 m) tall, and has gray to reddish-brown bark. Coarse-grained, strong, hard, and heavy, larch wood is useful in ship construction and for telephone poles, mine timbers, and railroad ties.
Sarah
In the Old Testament, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. In Genesis, God promised Abraham that she would be "a mother of nations," but Sarah refused to believe, and had already given her maidservant Hagar to Abraham, with whom he fathered Ishmael. Nevertheless, Sarah did conceive in her old age and give birth to Abraham's son Isaac.
shath
In Sufism, a divinely inspired statement that a ...
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