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...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...
...marginal denominational seminaries are the ones mostly marking time. The big ones are getting bigger. The interdenominational elite-Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Union-get more than they can take. At the University of Chicago Divinity School, reports Dean Jerald Brauer, applications are 90% higher than at the same time last year...
...attitude of theological students these days, says Chicago's Brauer, is "deeply skeptical, but searching." Harvard's Dr. J. Lawrence Burkholder finds that "almost all the students are some what apprehensive when it comes to their faith." Many find serious gaps in the theology that comes to them across the lectern. Says George Pickering, 25, a senior at Chicago: "Problems like disarmament, radiation-they so transcend the kind of 'shall I spit at my aunt?' kind of ethics that we're lost. Ethics have been boxed in over the ages into a kind of gentility...