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...Methodists take to organization." The theology of Niebuhr and Barth "rescued me from the tranquilizing theory of inevitable evolutionary progress and restored the sense of God's majesty. But as the years went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order to be noticed. A professor of mine once commented that his definition of a good religious educator was a fellow who had had a bad case of John Dewey and gotten over it. I now feel somewhat the same way about neo-orthodoxy...
Rule No. 1: Each partner must believe that the other is speaking in good faith. This, Theologian Brown points out, is not based simply on civilized behavior, but on the fact that both parties are "servants of Jesus Christ." This "makes us brethren. Some of my Protestant friends feel that there is an attitude of condescension in the Catholic description of Protestants as 'separated brethren.' I do not share this feeling. I think the phrase an excellent one, for it describes exactly what...
...speak to us on matters scientific," he says. "He could, but he doesn't. Science helps us understand a great deal about the universe, but not about the creator of the universe and his personality." How about the theory of evolution? Says Dr. Russell Mixter of the Plymouth Brethren, zoology professor and chairman of the biological sciences department: "It no more explains the fact of man's existence than nails and wood explain the existence of a house. The carpenter is the real source of the house's existence, and God is the real source...
...American to accept the Catholic side, it is likewise un-American to accept the Protestant side. In other words, Bishop Pike and cohorts have brought their religious convictions into the political arena. If separation of church and state is to continue, then let our separated brethren apply the same rule to themselves...
...squad of schoolmen. Russell puts living and dead philosophers in the same intellectual arena. Turning to 6th century B.C. Greece, for example, he respects Anaximander's intuition that man is biologically related to fish, but laughs at his injunction that therefore man should not eat fish. "Whether our brethren of the deep cherish equally delicate sentiments towards us is not recorded," Russell snuffles in a donnish gibe. It is almost as if the Greek fellow were declining the Dover sole as guest of the author at Trinity High Table...