Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gordon explained that he withdrew his gift out of fear that the protestors would harm his family or the building. B.U. President Arland F. Christ-Janer called Gordon's action "understand able." Taken by surprise, student leaders started a fund-raising drive to replace...
Last Tuesday when a new School of Nursing was to be dedicated and named for Gordon and his wife, no one doubted that SDS would be picketing the event. But midway through the morning, Gordon's son says, the family got a call from B.U. President Arland F. Christ-Janer's office warning that there would be "outsiders picketing and that violence was possible if the family attended. The sinister "outsiders," according to SDS, were a small group from CORE who had no plans for violence, but these explanations came after the fact: Gordon cancelled the gift at noon Tuesday...
...sudden excitement, Boston University was spared a decision on the questions SDS had posed. Christ-Janer went ahead with the dedication ceremonies, apologizing for the "harrassment" of Gordon and sympathetically calling his withdrawal "understandable." The President has been out of town since, but both his office and Gordon's talk of friendly relations in the future...
...contemporary religion-the "immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...
...developing a "theology of celebration," based on joy, hope and even fantasy, Cox concludes, "we can celebrate the past, delight in the present, and gladly anticipate the future without sacrificing one to the other. Christ has come to previous generations of men in various guises, as teacher, judge, healer. Now, in a new or really an old but recaptured guise, Christ has begun to make an unexpected entrance onto the stage of modern secular life. Enter Christ the harlequin: the symbol of festivity and fantasy in an age which has almost lost both...