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Switzerland's Karl Barth, the greatest living Protestant theologian, could hardly be accused of being soft on Rome. "I cannot hear the voice of the Good Shepherd as coming from this Chair of Peter," he once said. But in the current issue of the quarterly Ecumenical Review, published by the World Council of Churches, Theologian Barth declares that Protestantism is in danger of being overtaken by the pervasive changes that are in process in Roman Catholicism, as evidenced by the Vatican Council (which is scheduled to reconvene Sept...
...closer to Catholic doctrine. And Catholic scholars are quick to notice the similarities: in a 1957 book that rocked German theological circles, Father Hans Kiing of Tiibingen argued that Karl Earth's understanding of justification was essentially compatible with the teachings of the Council of Trent. For Theologian Barth, God's grace, acquired through faith, implies a command to service in this life...
...19th centuries. But Buber is best known for his philosophy of dialogue. It is not only one of the most important modern influences on Jewish thought, but it has also affected scores of Christian thinkers-among them, Roman Catholic Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Orthodoxy's Nikolai Berdyaev, Protestants Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. To Reinhold Niebuhr, he is "the greatest living Jewish philosopher." Dag Hammarskjold was Buber's disciple and Swedish translator...
...Barth seems to be resigned to the fact that there may be no additions to the Dogmatics. "Let people read my first twelve volumes," he says, in dry awareness that they are heavy going. He has "written more than any other contemporary theologian," and fears overdoing it: "I definitely don't wish to be another Adenauer." He is in good health, still full of sly wit and provocative opinions. A sampling of the latest Barthian views...
...ROMAN CATHOLICS: Barth believes that thanks to Pope John XXIII "we are witnessing a complete reinterpretation of Roman Catholic dogma. The thoughts expounded by Hans Kűng and other modern theologians in Germany, Holland, France and elsewhere are no longer views of a small spearhead minority, but form the very ground swell of Catholic renovation." It would be "terrible if the Pope died now," but the trend of Catholic thinking "looks to me irreversible." Barth scoffs at the widespread Protestant view that Rome is at last catching up with the Reformation churches, says "it might well be that...