Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced just when he was exhorting the Germans to rebuild their own army. But last week der Alte seemed once more the leader sure of what he must do. The Chancellor summoned the Cabinet, ordered his ministers to stop squabbling and get rearmament moving. He lectured a caucus of Christian Democratic Deputies, pointing out that the Suez crisis "illustrates the need for conventional arms and forces" even in the age of the hydrogen bomb. The U.S. had, he declared, "adopted a certain turning-away-from-Europe policy" which made the construction of a new army all the more imperative...
...situation has become so bad that one Christian Democratic Deputy has proposed "measures to defend our soldiers against attack by the population." Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung editorialized wryly: "The Bundeswehr is being established for the protection of the state. Is the state now supposed to protect its soldiers against citizens...
This, says Bultmann, is the language of mythology, meaningful in New Testament times and derived mainly from Greek Gnosticism and Jewish apocalypticism. To expect moderns to accept it as true is both senseless and impossible-senseless "because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such . . . the cosmology of a pre-scientific age"; and impossible, because "no man can adopt a view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell...
Just published in the U.S. is a new Bultmann book: Primitive Christianity (Living Age; $1.25). Readers will find in it Bultmann the historian rather than Bultmann the revolutionary; lucidly and briefly he takes them through the Old Testament background, 1st century Judaism, the Greek influences on the early church. But in the last section of the book, dealing directly with primitive Christianity, demythologization is seen at work. Again and again Bultmann attributes to Gnostic influences what orthodox interpreters assign to essential Christian teaching. The problem of the future and the end of the world, which has come...
...stopped at the newly reopened roadside stand on U.S. 19 because all the signs advertising it had been stolen. The people of Americus, Ga. (pop. 12,000) would like to get rid of Koinonia Farm; it is an embarrassment to some, a scandal to others. For it is a Christian experiment in racial equality...