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...Islam is no more than a dim eschatological hope. Yet ecumenists involved in conversations with Islam feel that there is a valuable purpose to the current talks-the clearing away of centuries of hatred and misunderstanding, the forging of friendship among faiths that face a common enemy in atheism and disbelief...
...questionnaire on opinions, students were asked about religious belief by checking one of a series of statements ranging from belief in a personal God to atheism. The question was identical with one that was used in the Cornell Values Survey. Students were separated into those who believed in God (the first two statements) and those who did not (all the rest of the statements). For the Class of 1964 there was a significant association between belief and use of the Psychiatric Service. Nonbelievers were overrepresented in the psychiatric population. The association did not hold up, however, when tested...
After World War II, he was named Bishop of Berlin and head of the presiding Council of the Evangelical Church. Just as staunchly as he had rebuked Nazism, Dibelius attacked the "materialistic ideology" of Communism and repeatedly risked arrest to preach against atheism in his cathedral, East Berlin's Marienkirche. In 1957, after he signed an agreement with the Bonn Government on behalf of the church, providing for chaplain services to the new West German army, he was denounced by East Germany's Reds as the "NATO priest" and "atom bishop." Ultimately, he was barred from East Berlin...
...pictorial investigation of the one Elizabethan poet who could hold a candle to Shakespeare and who was a trouble-maker as well. Marlowe's route is traced through contemporary prints and present-day photos of his haunts. In trouble with the Star Chamber because of his vocal atheism, Marlowe was killed in a drunken brawl at Deptford, just as the law was closing in. The murder had so many loose ends that historians still wonder if it was not a put-up job to enable Marlowe to flee the country...
...Barth, Tillich, Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr, another on Christian ethics that ranges from sexual problems-to political responsibility. Novak traces the development of 20th century Catholic theology and literature, has gained his greatest student following with a course that explores the practical consequences of commitments to faith and atheism...