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Extra Ear. Of all the grotesque artists at work today, perhaps the ones with the soundest and most logical reasons for being angry at the world are Vienna's five "Fantastic Realists": Rudolf Hausner, Erich Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Mutter, Anton Lehmden. All underwent the real enough traumas of World War II. By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'. Though all are firmly established in their native Vienna, none had made much of a splash elsewhere until London...
...sometime poet who plays a mean folk guitar in his spare time, Brauer, 40, considers his paintings essentially literary. As often as not, they depict bizarre updatings of Biblical themes: Jacob in the khaki of a kibbutznik, Noah's ark floating through the air like...
...easy enough to argue that Christians have a God-given duty to work for racial equality, or for the eradication of hunger and disease in the world. The strategies to be followed in achieving these goals do not so easily acquire universal assent. For that reason, Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School argues that churches should not necessarily be engaged in trying to hand down specific solutions to social and political problems from the pulpit. Christian creativity in trying to solve these questions, he says, "won't be a case of the churches poking their...
...towers over his century by the sheer force of his personality, Churchillian in its scope and complexity. Yale's Roland Bainton, whose Here I Stand is one of the best modern biographies of the reformer, says that "Luther is not an individual. He is a phenomenon." Dr. Jerald Brauer, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, calls Luther "one of the three or four greatest figures in the history of Christianity, perhaps the greatest prophetic figure in post-Apostolic Western Christendom...
Theologians of such diverse backgrounds came together at Chicago, says Dean Brauer, because they believe that "religion is of the utmost importance if man is to retain his humanity. For them, the crisis of our time is not simply a Christian problem, but a crisis as to the meaning and possibility of religion in any form...