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...changes in Protestant thought that lie behind this trend were neatly analyzed last week in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by the Rev. Gregory Baum of St. Basil's Seminary in Toronto...
...tight-shut fundamentalist mind, there was nothing much Catholicism could say. In arguing with the liberals, says Father Baum, "we used to begin with the Bible regarded simply as an historical record, trying to show that Jesus, the man Jesus, claimed to be of divine origin and that He proved His claims by prophecy and miracles. Then we showed that he founded a Church, a community of believers on the rock of the apostles, endowed with certain notes or visible properties. The church with these properties can still be found today: it is the Catholic Church...
...same, some Catholic thinkers regarded Protestantism as "a movement on the way out. Theologically and biblically it had no leg to stand on ... Occasionally we made fun of it." Father Baum recalls the joke about the lapsed Catholic, asked if he was now a Protestant, who replied that though he had lost his faith, he had not lost his reason...
...Challenge. Today. Father Baum perceives "a renaissance of Protestant thought." Instead of looking upon the Scriptures as historical material, Protestant thinkers now take them essentially as "the proclamation of the faith of the early Church." Instead of focusing on the time when Jesus was alive, Protestantism is beginning to focus on what is really accessible-the time of the early Church, after the Crucifixion. This places the Scriptures in an entirely new light. "What is important, first of all, is not whether Jesus really said this or that, or really did this or that; what counts is that through...
...this case the dream is shared by highly intelligent and practical scientists. Among them is Dr. Frank Drake, 29, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., who this week launched an effort called Project Ozma-after the Princess in Author L. Frank Baum's strange and faraway Land of Oz. In Project Ozma, Green Bank's 85-ft. radio telescope is turned toward Epsilon Eridani and another star, Tau Ceti, both of them about eleven light years (66 trillion miles) away. Tuned to the 21-centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold...