Religion: Christian Individualist

One of the world's top authorities on the New Testament is a plain-speaking pipe-smoking Presbyterian minister named Ernest Findlay Scott. For most of his 78 years, English-born Dr. Scott has been writing about Christianity and teaching it. For 19 years he was at Union Theological Seminary, where former colleagues still recall his shyness, forceful lectures and dry wit.

No admirer of left-wing ideology, Dr. Scott once defined the difference between Socialism and Communism as "the difference between an ordinary dog bite and hydrophobia." Nor did he have any more use for other brands of collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship...

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