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Objections to Christian Belief is a brand-new volume of theological essays -written not, as the title suggests, by ardent atheists but by four devout Anglicans, three of them priests. They are among the dozen or so English academic divines known as the Cambridge Theologians, who today are producing some of the world's most provocative and searching studies of religious issues...
...Christ minister who has been impresario of the society's operations since 1960. A graduate of Albion College in Michigan and Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Benedict served two penitentiary terms during World War II for failing to register for the draft. Eventually he found his ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima. After the war, Benedict was one of the founders of Manhattan's now famous East Harlem Protestant Parish, spent six years establishing mission churches...
However, there had been an ardent 50-strong "three-times-a-day core" of faithful commuters who were establishing a budding Thou relationship with the Radcliffe bus, he noted. The line would have needed about twice as many faithful devotees, though, in order to cover the day-to-day managerial and operative costs of the service...
...freight's most ardent advocates predict that it will turn the U.S. into one vast market "five hours wide and 21 hours deep." That day is still some distance away, but an industry that does not blink at moving a 2,300-lb. cookie is quite capable of making the dream a reality. Right now, in fact, air freight is growing twice as fast as passenger travel...
Even his most ardent admirers grant that until now Pope Paul has been over shadowed by the memory of his predecessor. Shy, introspective and apparently indecisive at times, Paul seemed to lack the warmth and humanity that made John XXIII so universally loved...