Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME, Dec. 30). In a new book called A Question of Conscience (Harper & Row), Davis, 44, claims that his decision to defect was the result of his years of theological study, which gradually convinced him that Catholicism could not justify its claim to be the one true church of Christ and instead had become a "zone of untruth...
Davis attacks Catholicism on two major points: it is not a credible representation of what Christ's church ought to be, and its claim to be founded by Jesus through the Apostles cannot be justified historically. On the credibility issue Davis cites examples of the lack of freedom within the church, and its refusal to admit past error. Davis also argues that there is no convincing Scriptural basis for the institution of the papacy, and that the community of faith envisioned by Jesus was not the highly structured ecclesiastical bureaucracy that Rome is today but simply a loose-knit...
...situation. Kavanaugh, although he still considers himself a Catholic, believes basically that Christians should go it alone spiritually; what he wants is "freedom to find God without arrogant priests telling me I can't." More theologically, Davis proposes a state of "creative disaffiliation"- meaning committing oneself to Christ and Christian values but standing apart from any specific church. Both ex-priests intend to follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis...
...feeling that Goldwater is unlikely to detoxify. "He's failed to support Republican candidates," says Barry. "It's kind of hard to forget these things." Particularly in Dixie. "I don't think Texans would vote for Rockefeller," says Republican State Committeeman Albert Fay, "if Jesus Christ were his running mate." They just might if Ronald Reagan were. Indeed, signs of grudging support for an R. & R. ticket are beginning to sprout even in the South's stony soil...
...seminary in Jackson, Miss. Concerned Presbyterians fear that the church's increasing involvement in social issues is a radical departure from its historic traditions. The group, explains its president, Miami Realtor Kenneth Keyes Sr., "would like to return the church to its basic purpose-leading unsaved souls to Christ. We think that the individual Christian should be involved, but we do not think that the church should enter into these matters...