Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Particularly for city folks, who pride themselves on their survival instincts and their street smarts, the dilemma is often more practical than moral: they are afraid of being conned. While willing to help those who are truly in need, they are suspicious that many panhandlers are actually hustlers. "I've...
No priest? Why, virtually everything Powers had written till then had been about Roman Catholic clergymen in out-of-the-way Midwestern parishes. He had established himself as an uncannily intimate chronicler of their workaday / lives away from the altar: their immersions in church politics and fund raising, their intramural...
There are, of course, enclaves in a lot of American cities that feel foreign because one group or another clings to a way of life that originated in some other country. In New Orleans the mainstream can have foreign ways. No one who ever took a close look at Mardi...
In the years since Bultmann, who died in 1976, scholarship has been sharply divided. His Protestant heirs continue to view the New Testament as a seriously flawed historical document. Even Catholic scholars have moved toward this theory since the Vatican modified its traditionally strict view of the accuracy of the...
...Roman Catholicism has just begun to grapple with the awareness that liberal scholarship may pose a threat to dogma. "Sometimes I ask my Catholic counterparts why they must make all the same mistakes in 20 years when we Protestant theologians needed over 200 years," jests Tubingen's Hengel. Conservative Catholics hope Ratzinger will strike at this threat, but the Cardinal is said to oppose a return to Rome's earlier proclamations on the Bible's complete historical reliability. He seems to prefer intellectual counteroffensives to decrees and crackdowns...