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...Testament, Christian guilt at the Nazi persecution and Christian intimations of minority status in the world at large have brought them closer to Jews than they have been perhaps since the first centuries of Christianity. "The Jews have the promise of God," writes Protestant Theologian Karl Barth, "and if we Christians from among the Gentiles have it too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, as new wood grafted onto their old tree...
...deal with one another as objects. For many Christian thinkers, Buber's personalism was a vital corrective to the existentialist stress on man, and the roster of those who acknowledge their debt to his thinking reads like the honor role of 20th century theology: Tillich, Niebuhr, Maritain, Berdiaev, Barth...
Encouraging Signs. Should U.S. law thus make it a crime to be a Bad Samaritan? At the very least it should compensate rescuers for injuries and lawsuits, argued Chicago Law Professor Norval Morris. Would the country then blossom with Good Samaritans? Perhaps, but as Washington Post Editorialist Alan Barth wryly recalled: "The original Good Samaritan was fortunate in not arriving on the scene until after the thieves had set upon the traveler, robbed him and beaten him half to death. The Samaritan cared for him, but he did not put himself in any peril by doing...
Despite his reservations, Barth suggested that Americans have recently "accepted a collective responsibility to be our brothers' keepers to a degree never before manifested." University of Illinois Sociologist Joseph Gusfield was equally optimistic. Mass society may create indifference, he said, but with it come mass communications that spur moral responses. Gusfield's prize example: the recent descent on Selma of Americans from every corner of the country. Gusfield called that phenomenon "one of the greatest outpourings of mass Samaritanism in American history...
...assertion of the individual; beyond the" absurd to laughter at absurdity. At its worst, their laughter can be shrill, silly, or self-indulgent. It has yet to blow down Jericho, let alone the Book-of-the-Month Club. For the best of the new breed, writers like Barth and Donleavy, it is the work still in their typewriters that will determine their ultimate standing. Meanwhile they are delighting many a reader who can unsettle down with a good book...