Word: brauer
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Even so, says Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "the incident dramatizes the situation in which we find ourselves in regard to mercy killing. The religious community will quite soon have to rethink its whole stand on this." It is already doing so. Some Protestant theologians believe that euthanasia is morally justified to spare the suffering of the hopelessly ill. Says Unitarian Jack Mendelsohn, minister of Boston's Arlington Street Church: "There are occasions when mercy killing is justified because it is desired by the person who is ill." More cautiously, the Roman Catholic Church...
...Dean Jerald Brauer of the Uni versity of Chicago Divinity School analyzes the conflict, the council's sincere critics "do not think that the churches have the responsibility, not to say the right, to employ the Gospel as a critique as well as a bulwark of American society. The very fact that the council is under attack is fairly good evidence that it is seeking to fulfill the role it ought to play in American society." The council proposes, in any case, to amplify the role. The General Board last week gave its approval to a number...
...Articulate Minority." The size and strength of the movement are hard to measure. Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School argues that the movement appears impressive because of "an articulate minority talking at the top," but is "not as strong, relatively speaking, as it was five years ago." Conservatives claim that they represent about 70% of the nation's grass-roots Christians. As evidence of health, they point to the undiminished appeal of Billy Graham, the growth of such conservative groups as the National Association of Evangelicals (which claims to speak for 10 million Protestants...
Divine Discontent. Humanities are still hungry at Chicago. Yet in history and anthropology, for example, it already claims to be near tops in the U.S. In political science, it has Hans Morgenthau; the divinity school boasts Paul Tillich, Martin Marty and Dean Jerald Brauer, plans to build a separate Lutheran seminary...
Principal opposition came from the Department of Mathematics, which has a number of prestigious endowed instructorships that it wants to maintain. Richard D. Brauer, professor of Mathematics and chairman of the Department, explained last night that "the present system is very satisfactory" and the Department did not want to change...