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Instant Theology. Bishop Pike, who unlocked the discussion, is far from being a man talking his way toward atheism, and his reductionist theologizing is seriously intended to help put Christian faith on a surer, sounder footing. What Christianity needs, Pike proposes, is "more belief, fewer beliefs." In the name of this jaunty slogan, Pike seems quite willing to jettison 20 centuries of Christian doctrinal development, if necessary, to preserve and emphasize what he considers the central, essential and irreducible message of the church: God as the loving personal ground of existence, Jesus as the suffering servant in whom...
...many felt the need for so much redefinition. Science, technology, affluence and secularism have eased God out of the cosmos, all but obliterated the supernatural dimension of life. Urbanization has made the rural imagery of Scripture incomprehensible to "hungry sheep" who have never seen one. A radically aggressive atheism demands God's death for the sake of human freedom. New philosophies stare uncomprehendingly at seemingly static Christian doctrines 1,500 years old. For Christians, the age of anxiety is the age of ebbing faith, and Bishop Pike is not the only prophet crying out for the church to restate...
...unusual. This month's cover, for example, is a striking serigraph by Sister Mary Corita, the famed art teacher of Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College. Last spring the magazine came briefly to national attention after it published-as a sly commentary on the Christian atheism of Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton-a mock obituary for God, written by Poet Anthony Towne in the noncommittal style of the New York Times. The obit had previously been turned down by The New Yorker, the Christian Century and, of course, the Times-which later reprinted...
...election year, when a "nay" might seem like a vote for atheism, Ev was confident that he could put the amendment over. Nor was he worried that Senate liberals might try to talk it to death. "Well, now," he said, "if anybody wants to filibuster the Lord...
Simone de Beauvoir's meticulous scholarship of her own psychology has made her a formidable, if exasperating, novelist and autobiographer. In both forms she has displayed an intransigent hostility toward the values of her own family-Catholic, provincial, bourgeois. She has celebrated an escape into atheism, Paris and existentialism, and she has strewn a great deal of philosophical confetti over her famous non-wedding with Jean-Paul Sartre, her unembarrassable non-bridegroom. Now, this brilliant, honest, but Gallically humorless woman, who in The Second Sex denied even the facts of life, confronts the fact of death...