Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University of Chicago Press, for example, is publishing Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan's magisterial five-volume series on the development of Christian doctrine, The Christian Tradition. It recently issued Lutheran Pelikan's second volume, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (329 pages; $16.50), a careful distillation of Eastern Orthodoxy's contribution to Christian thought. Princeton University Press will soon bring out a massive survey called Religious Movements in Contemporary America (900 pages; $25), which ranges from Scientology to Krishna Consciousness. An earlier entry from Yale University Press, Historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom's huge but very readable...
...philosophy to explore the fundamental alienation of the Cross, in which God paradoxically "takes upon himself the eternal death of the godless and the godforsaken, so that all the godless and godforsaken can experience communion with him." Moltmann forces the reader to face the difficult central questions of Christian faith and action in the light of that Cross, and creates a consummate theological work...
...MONASTIC WORLD, by Christopher Brooke, photographs by Wim Swaan (Random House; 272 pages; $35). Pictorially, this is as exhilarating and artful a presentation of Christian monastic structures as any popular volume ever before assembled. It includes not only such oft-visited sites as Assisi and Mont-Saint-Michel but also monasteries that seem more like eagles' aeries, such as Saint-Martin-du-Canigou in southern France. The text, moreover, is a lucid, sympathetic but judicious treatise on the monastic life and its reverberations in society, written by Medievalist Brooke, a historian at London University...
...guidelines candidly admit that Jewish-Christian relations "have scarcely ever risen above a monologue." To help promote a "real dialogue," they emphasize ways to bury residual Catholic prejudice and misunderstanding. An important section on education warns that "the Old Testament and the Jewish tradition founded upon it must not be set against the New Testament in such a way that the former seems to constitute a religion of only justice, fear and legalism, with no appeal to the love of God and neighbor." It then cites biblical passages to demonstrate the love of both in Judaism...
...number of Jewish leaders. In a statement of reply, the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations welcomed the guidelines' "urgent condemnation of anti-Semitism and discrimination," but objected to "the suggestion that Judaism look outside its own doctrine and dogmas for fulfillment." It also questioned the compatibility of Christian evangelization with the guidelines' assertion that "dialogue demands respect for the other...