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...other speakers at the Law School Forum, the Rev. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, and Julian V. Casserley, professor at the General Theological Seminary, agreed with Fr. Weigel that a real Christian union at this time is "extremely doubtful," but the panelists emphasized the desirability of such a union...
...Casserley pointed out that "a degree of unity already does exist. Somewhere in back of the schisms is a relation of every baptized Christian to Christ and to all other Christians," he said...
...eight chapters include studies of Kierkegaard by Theologian H. (for Helmut) Richard Niebuhr,* Spain's Miguel de Unamuno by President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Nicholas Berdyaev by Matthew Spinka, professor of church history at the Hartford Seminary Foundation, Gabriel Marcel by Professor J. V. Langmead Casserley of the General Theological Seminary, Martin Heidegger by Erich Dinkler of Yale Divinity School, and of modern art by Harvard's Professor Paul Tillich. Out of this meeting of minds one conclusion about existentialists emerges clear: they take life hard...
Third, and most dangerous, there is the "pseudo-divinity of the modern state . . . a divinity thrust upon it by masses of insecure and frustrated people, insistently demanding some powerful and venerable object of faith and trust." Author Casserley compares the modern revolutionary movements to "the more discreditable phases of church history." Their symptoms: "A minute and hairsplitting dogmatism enthusiastically engaged upon for its own sake: the persecution of deviant shades of opinion; an enthusiastic cult of the [human] savior...
...Christian hope." It is unrealistic to think that political and administrative machinery can weld mankind into "a rationalized mass without first transforming [it] into a fellowship." Here again a substitute religion has too limited a goal, hardly the advance on Christianity that it hoped to be. Concludes Author Casserley: "Surpassed Christianity indeed! We have none of us yet caught up with...