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...Faunce, who was a Baptist minister before he became President of Brown, spoke of the students need for spiritual guidance. He said that the change in standards of belief, the spiritual unrest of the age, is particularly hard on young people, and that he has known more than one case of breakdown from a warring of old beliefs against new teachings; an inability to think things through and arrive at an acceptable solution. Brown is calling a new spiritual counselor in the person of the Rev. O. T. Gilmore...
...quickly plunges into metaphysical formulations for which all but religious scholars lack the basic vocabulary. "Most people don't live in the theological nuances, including clergy," says Dr. Philip Blackwell of Chicago's First United Methodist Church. And even if we did, says Jack Graham, pastor of the Prestonwood Baptist megachurch in Plano, Texas, a full understanding might still elude us. "There are many mysteries of atonement that we won't understand this side of eternity," he says. Discussion is also stunted by American Christianity's ongoing romance with a friendly, helpful, personal Jesus, which has made detailed discussion...
...critics of the exemplary theory have held that it had no particular use for Christ's divinity. Any virtuous martyr might do. One wit remarked that the Bible could have ended with the death of Abel, a decent enough man. Calvinist Evangelicals like Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Southern Seminary, continue to press that point. Pure exemplary theory, he says, "is just an account of one human trying to impress other humans with the moral of self-sacrifice, and that is not the Christian Gospel and never has been." Others note that the theory shortchanges...
Jonathan Ramey raised his hand. Ramey, an ordained Baptist minister who is homeless, had gravitated to First United Methodist while living in a nearby shelter. "Can't a person benefit from someone else's suffering?" he asked. "My brother saved me from getting beat up more than once by taking the beatings himself. I'm going through suffering now," he said. "If I look at Jesus' suffering, I know I can do this." The other participants humored him for a few minutes but gave no ground...
...mean more than one thing." And Barbara Wheeler, president of New York's Auburn Seminary, asserts that these days "most mainstream theologians recognize more than two possibilities and the importance of balancing and integrating them." Even in the evangelical world, for every Christian like Reagan White Jr.--a Texas Baptist who recently passed up an exemplary-oriented congregation because "even the best organ in the world can strike a sour note if the sermon that follows it waters down the essence of Christianity"--there are probably five like Methodist Janet McLeod, a publicist from the same state who notes...