Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have the structures to fit the emerging theology." The new understanding of the church as an organic spiritual community implies a spirit of democracy; of shared authority. Yet it is the firm view of Pope Paul-backed overwhelmingly by the bishops-that the church was founded by Jesus Christ as an absolute monarchy, and cannot be changed without doing violence to God's intentions...
...that the tradition of scholastic philosophy is a timeless mode of expressing the truths of the Christian faith. His encyclical on the Eucharist contended that the late-medieval word transubstantiation was the only way of expressing the mystery of the consecration, when the bread and wine at Mass become Christ's body and blood. His new creed, promulgated last July, was a disappointingly unimaginative restatement of doctrinal orthodoxy that differed only in minor details from the language of the Council of Trent. His argument against contraception in Humanae Vitae rested on a traditional understanding of natural law-the theory...
...relate his teaching to the needs of all the people, I consider him fallible. Papal infallibility will never be restored until all Christians are returned to the subservient classes or until the Pope advances to a sympathy for the 'real Christian.' I am not convinced that Christ would ever condemn anyone who practiced contraception to save his family from disaster-disaster can come in many forms-or to save his fellow man from the problems of overpopulation...
Many of the churches have tried hard to answer these demands. Last year, for example, the United Church of Christ elected the Rev. Joseph Evans of Chicago, a Negro, as its denominational secretary. The United Methodist Church has assigned black bishops to predominantly white areas of Iowa and New Jersey, and even to one district which encompasses parts of Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia. Last month the Rev. Richard Owens, pastor of the People's Baptist Church in the black ghetto of Boston's Roxbury area, was elected president of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention...
...clude the relation of the struggles of the Negro to the Biblical experience of the Jews as God's chosen people, and the black man's demand for justice to Jesus' ethical teachings. It might also justify, on a more practical level, the artistic presentation of Christ as black- something that has been done in a number of Negro parishes...