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"In popular language Hell is the place of dreadful punishment . . . Is this how we should think of Hell?" Not at all, says Life and Death. The Bible uses the word Hell to translate the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades, which were underworld places where all the dead lived shadowy...
Echoing other theologians, the committee argues that a less primitive kind of Hell certainly exists. "Some form of punishment, in the next world if not in this, may be necessary if sinners are to be brought to a realization of what their rebellion has meant to God in the rejection...
"American Jews," says Hertzberg, "do not look to the church down the street as the bearer of a pure faith, undefiled by what is wrong with contemporary America-if only because its minister is quite likely to be telling all who will listen that the struggle for piety is as...
Rabbi Hertzberg realizes that peaceful theological coexistence with the Jews-advocated by leading Christian theologians, including Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich-would be something of a revolution for traditionally proselytizing Christianity, but he thinks that practice in coexistence might be valuable. "Today," he says, "Christianity is the religion of the...
Speaking for the Holy Office, Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo agreed that the church must try to recapture the French workers' allegiance (although he noted stiffly that men who received the "sacred and indelible mark of baptism" could not be considered totally "de-Christianized"). But, continued Pizzardo, "it is above all...