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...churches must change their fundamental tenets; rather, he believes their truth must be proclaimed anew by a church "united in a common divine calling." He recalls that the theme of the Oxford conferences in 1937 was, "Let the Church be the Church." And he admires the German theologian Karl Barth because "Barth felt the church had lost its soul in making adjustments to historical trends. He called the church to be itself again," says Visser't Hooft...
...course, still in the theological vocabulary-except perhaps to some followers of Paul Tillich who prefer the phrase "Ground of Being." Tillich has provided a whole glossary of terms for modern theological table talk, including "religious atheism"; many more come from such equally fertile German word-coiners as Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Whenever possible, theological jargon words are used in their German form. Heilsgeschichte, for example, is more learned than salvation history, and it is definitely one up to say Angst instead of anxiety or Wissenschaft instead of discipline. Says Dr. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford...
...with the latest in theological fashions. Jargon changes, as theologians change, says the Rev. Karl Parker, executive director of the Association of Churches of Greater Houston. "It used to be 'atmosphere.' Then it became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined...
Parkinson's Law. Questioning the council's role in the world has not been limited to Orthodoxy. In an article in the current Ecumenical Review, Karl Barth, of Basel, warned that the spirit of renewal seemed to be blowing stronger in Rome than in Geneva these days. Many delegates in Rochester were aware of the need to criticize the gradual "institutionalizing" of the council. In a debate on the latest annual in crease in the council's budget, the Anglican Bishop of Winchester complained that professional ecumenicism seemed to many to be proving Parkinson...
...Barth argues that Protestants have paid too much attention to the "conversational contacts" with Rome that the council has opened up, and too little to the spirit of inner renewal that is visible in much of present-day Catholic theology and Biblical scholarship, as well as in the new directions in worship proposed by liturgical reformers. Far from being a "static power group," Rome, like Protestantism, lives "by the dynamics of the evangelical Word and Spirit," and Catholicism today may well have in it more "spiritual motion" than the Protestant churches...