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William Edward Burghardt DuBois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1868, the year the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. He died August 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana, on the eve of the Great March on Washington. In the 95 years of his life, Dr. DuBois combined the roles of historian, author, journalist, sociologist, politician, and educator, in an unremitting struggle against racial inequality, discrimination, and injustice. President Kwame Nkrumah, in his tributary message at the funeral in Ghana, described DuBois as "the greatest scholar the Negro race has produced...
Died. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 95, Negro philosopher and editor, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., since 1961 a card-carrying Communist; in Accra, Ghana. Du Bois won a Harvard Ph.D. in 1895, took an early lead in Negro agitation as head of the militant Niagara Movement; when it merged with the N.A.A.C.P. in 1909, he became the association's only Negro officer and editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement...
Thus the Catholic vision of Mary, says Burghardt, strangles ecumenical dialogue. "She is for the Protestant the visible symbol of Catholic idolatry, the Roman abandonment of Scripture, of the history of Christ. Divine Maternity and Perpetual Virginity and Immaculate Conception and a glorious Assumption-these are already stones of stumbling. But the end is not yet. It may soon be defined as part and parcel of God's public revelation that in union with her son the Virgin redeemed the world...
Logic in Dogma. In the past, Catholic theologians have been content to justify this dogmatic development by saying that the church has the duty to explain and unfold those things that may be hidden, or implicit, within Christ's teaching. But, asks Burghardt: "Is a dogma always logically implicit in revelation? Do I always make it explicit by human logic? Is all God's revelation discoverable in Scripture? If the total vision is in Scripture, just how is it there? In clear propositions? In logical implications? If only part of Mariology is Biblically based, where is the remnant...
Resolving such questions, concludes Father Burghardt, may well involve some spiritual agony for Catholics, but "the experience should be intellectually and spiritually stimulating for ourselves-and for those not of our number to whom we say so insistently that the function of Our Lady in the 20th century, as in the first, is to bring God down...