Word: christiane
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Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, is a native Atlantan, a former activist in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a close friend of the King family...
Despite the agreement, and probable parliamentary approval of it this week, Italy's troubles were far from over. For one thing, Christian Democratic factions, which have been stung by the Sardinian elections, are engaged in unsettling feuds among themselves. If the bickering goes too far, it could bring down Rumor's coalition. Beyond that, Rumor and his reconstituted government still have to face popular reaction to an unpopular list of stiff new taxes...
Ramsey, a Methodist, cites St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans in supporting the traditional Christian view that death entered the world as "the wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross redeemed man for immortality, but did nothing to prevent death from being a shattering separation of soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread...
...criticism in the same issue of the Hastings Center Studies from Dr. Leon Kass, a physician and molecular biologist who works in biomedical ethics. Kass takes issue with Ramsey's view of death as an "indignity," insisting instead that "to live is to be mortal." Jewish, if not Christian teaching has generally held that view, Kass says; evolutionary biology confirms and strengthens...
...Some modern Christian theologians and biblical scholars are less literal about the cause of death in the world. Any "immortality" of primordial man was a divine gift, explain some, not man's natural condition. Another suggestion is that pre-fall man would have somehow had to end his "biological and historical" existence, but would have done it voluntarily and without trauma...