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Resplendent in clerical robes and red cap, Augustin Cardinal Bea, President of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity, took the pulpit in Sanders Theatre March 27 to address the Divinity School's Catholic-Protestant Colloquium. In a dramatic way Bea's visit to Harvard marked the re-emergence of the Divinity School as a significant force in the intellectual life of the University. Sure of its present and hopeful for its future after ten years of growth, the School is making an effort to expand the influence of religion in contemporary society...
...Magna Carta. Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. Written largely by German Jesuit Augustin Bea, now the cardinal in charge of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, the encyclical encouraged Catholics to study the historical background of Scripture, and to use modern critical techniques developed by Protestant and Jewish scholars. Bible scholars hailed the encyclical as their Magna Carta; conservative theologians thought it an open invitation to a modernist revival...
...Task of Scholarship. Speaking of the ecumenical spirit as "this surprising fact," Cardinal Bea (pronounced Bay-uh) again and again referred to the lack of Christian unity as "a painful story, an open wound that goes on bleeding and hurting." Healing the wound to attain perfect unity will be long and hard, he warned, and we must not "search for compromises." But while this union is in God's hands, men can prepare the way. Scholarship, said the cardinal, could help bring churches together by clearing away the misconceptions and prejudices that led to the historic schisms, by finding...
Stendahl, a Lutheran, noted that "there is really a solid basis for a great methodological agreement in the basic discipline of Biblical studies. The kind of thing which Cardinal Bea is speaking of is not just a mood in the Roman Catholic Church right now, but something which is here to stay...
Invited to the U.S. by Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, German-born Cardinal Bea turned down 70 requests for appearances, will give only eight public speeches during his eleven-day visit. He comes with a private diplomatic mission from Pope John. In Washington, through unofficial intermediaries, Bea will let the White House know the reasoning behind Pope John's surprising new willingness to negotiate with Communism, perhaps explain what further diplomatic moves are afoot. "The U.S. is angry now," the cardinal told a friend in Rome before his trip. "I'm afraid they will soon be angrier...