Word: clergymen
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...again, the churches have slipped over in one direction or the other-too much in the world or too much out of it. From its Puritan beginnings, U.S. Christianity has been deeply concerned with the world, addressing society on its multitude of problems. To a growing number of clergymen, however, being in the world really means being in it-not just talking to it. If they have their way, it may be hard in the future to tell where the church begins and the world leaves off. The role of the churches in the past 100 years can be seen...
...coalition includes other faculty members such as Michael L. Walzer, associate professor of Government; local clergymen, including Rev. Richard E. Mumma; radical student groups such as SDS; and local housewives...
...recent conference in Washington of "Clergymen and Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam," 500 seminarians signed a petition urging the abolition of their exempt status. In a letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...
...from service, like the old "clergyman's discount" at stores, unfairly and unnecessarily sets the cleric apart as a privileged member of society. Some seminarians even feel that their exemption stigmatizes them in the eyes of others as suspected draft dodgers. Still another argument against exemption is that clergymen, if faced with the real challenge of whether or not to serve, would be forced to evaluate more searchingly the morality of war and of duty. Asks Lutheran Theologian John Elliott of St. Louis' Concordia Seminary: "How can clergymen who have not faced the draft advise men who face...
...clergyman ought to have. He is to represent in this world that man whose mission was to die for others and not to kill them." Even so, there appears to be a growing consensus among ministers that, as the Christian Century recently argued, "the distinction and privilege granted to clergymen and ministerial students by the Selective Service Act preserve in the popular mind a repugnant clerical image...