Word: burghardt
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Bone in the Throat. In these ecumenical times, argued Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., professor of patristic theology at the Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Md., theologians are obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
Protestant theologians know that in Catholic belief (as in their own) the public revelation of God ended with the death of the last apostle. But Catholics now explicitly accept as dogma certain things that their forefathers did not. "For all his good will," says Burghardt, "the non-Catholic scholar does not see that any of the sacred authors speak of the Assumption of Our Lady, and yet the Assumption was declared revealed truth...
...other Marshals will be Marjory P. Zost of 62 Sparks St. and Bellingham, Wash., president of the Senior Class; Claudia G. Burghardt, of Everett House and New York City: Patricia H. Gerald, of Slater House and Lllnneapolis Minn; and Margaret Rouillion, of Barnard Hall and Washington, Conn...