Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black clergymen, in fact, have seemed to enjoy a confident tradition of "open ministry" that puts them in the forefront of church action. Pentacostalist Minister Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, 33, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, believes ? and earnestly preaches ? that all races can live together better than they can separately. His principal ministry these days is folk songs, which he delivers in a rich Leadbelly bass, often on marches for peace in Washington or New York, and this month on a tour of some 20 colleges and universities through the South. Though a robustly spiritual...
...many who are revolutionizing the ministry, action is its own imperative. They feel no lack of any underpinning theology; a pressing social need is Gospel enough. For others, the words of Jesus are a better rationale: "As long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me." Yet secular involvement is an enterprise that brings many unfamiliar encounters; it can profoundly disturb the cleric who comes to it without a theology. For such men, contemporary theologians are seeking to develop a new understanding of the central relationships of human life...
...between the sacred and secular is described in Harvey Cox's influential 1965 book The Secular City as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the breaking of all myths and supernatural symbols." If anywhere, Christ might only be sought through humanistic action in the world...
...hope-rejects the death of God by stating, in effect, that God is alive and well in history. German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg cleared the stage for this movement by challenging Biblical Demythologizer Rudolph Bultmann, the dominant voice in postwar German theology. Pannenberg dramatically asserted God's past action in history by reaffirming that Christ actually rose from the dead, and established his future activity by making the eschaton ("last things") once again real and important: Judgment and Christ's Second Coming were the proper endpoint of history. But it remained for Jürgen Moltmann, a young Reformed...
...Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, Congress' tough response to popular demands for stronger action against crime...