Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cataclysm of World War I shattered the 29-year-old chaplain's classical philosophy; walking among the dead and dying at the Battle of Champagne in 1915, he lost his belief that man could ever know the essence of his being. Nietzsche's proclamation that "God is dead" tolled like a bell in his mind. "I changed from an idealist to a tragic realist," he said...
...never happened to see a reverend with a madras tie before Bill Coffin. But then, most things about Yale's galvanic chaplain don't quite match the stereotyped trappings of the traditional man of the cloth...
After one year as Andover's Chaplain and a second at Williams College, he came home to roost at Yale, where he's been ever since...
...merits of relativism. "You can't tell them what to do," says the Rev. Harwood Bartlett of Georgia Tech. Many campus ministers encourage students to take on spiritual responsibility of their own. When one University of Minnesota student reported that his roommate had a drinking problem, Episcopal Chaplain G. Russell Hatton replied: "Then go have a few drinks with him. You're the minister. You're the one who has to help...
Such behind-the-scenes service is often necessary, suggests Episcopal Chaplain John Pyle of the University of Chicago, because "there is a general feeling of anti-institutionalism" among students. But beneath student skepticism, many campus clerics see evidence of a genuine but unformed faith. Although they encounter some convinced atheists, more often the doubter is like the University of Houston graduate student who told a Baptist chaplain that she "had hated God since she was six" because a minister told her that "God had taken" her father when he died. Now, says the Rev. DeWitt Baldwin of the University...