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Switzerland's Oscar Cullmann, professor of early church history and New Testament at Basel University and one of Europe's top Protestant theologians, was visiting Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary last week, busy with lectures, seminars and informal discussions. The talk that stirred up the most discussion-and brought an unprecedented turnout of Roman Catholic priests to Union-was not on the problems of eschatology and exegesis, for which he is well known, but on the practical problems of Protestant-Catholic relations. Theologian Cullmann reiterated a proposal that has been catching on increasingly in Europe: Protestant...
...work. "One has to go back to Rodin and beyond that to Michelangelo to be able to match this experience," raved one Rotterdam critic. Dutch Sculptor Leo Braat said, "This work is anything but a play of forms; it is an act of faith, a revelation.". In Basel, Switzerland, where the exhibition opened last month, critics greeted Lipchitz as "the greatest cubist among sculptors." Ahead for the show lie Munich, Dortmund, Brussels, Rome, Paris, London...
Minnesota-born President-designate Gill has studied under the Big Four of contemporary Protestant theology: Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich (at the Universities of Basel and Zurich, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary). No stranger to parish work, he has also served churches in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and New York City. In his book-cluttered little cubicle in the Christian Century's ancient Chicago office, Editor Gill. 38. last week explained why he had decided to leave journalism for another job: "Part of the reason is my particular distortion of the Calvinistic conscience...
...period marshes, which are now coal areas around Grosseto, in central Italy. His first fossil bones were found in 1872, have always been labeled monkey fragments. But in 1949 Hurzeler became convinced that Oreopithecus was a higher type. For years he pored over bits of jaws and teeth at Basel Natural History Museum, where he is curator of vertebrate paleontology...
Down from the Tree. His finding last week was a boost for his theory. Sent off to Basel, Oreopithecus will undergo months of study before its vintage is truly certified. But Hurzeler quickly reported definite human affinities. Examples: a manlike big toe close to other toes, a short pelvis and wide ilium, which may indicate that Oreopithecus walked erect instead of swinging from trees. Hurzeler suggests that "men and apes have a common ancestor ten times older than we thought, perhaps 60 to 70 million years back. At least 10 million years ago, manlike characteristics were in full swing...