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...brisk three-day seminar, and theology has become increasingly international. One proof is a new book called The New Hermeneutic (Harper & Row; $5), the second in a series devoted to a dialogue between Continental and American theologians on major religious issues. Edited by James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology, the book contains essays on hermeneutic by Ernst Fuchs of Marburg and Gerhard Ebeling of Zurich. Their contributions are analyzed by three topflight U.S. thinkers: Amos Wilder of Harvard Divinity School, Robert Funk of Drew, and John Dillen-berger of San Francisco...
Robinson and Cobb are pleased that their series' first volume, The Later Heidegger and Theology, has already been translated into German, showing that a dialogue is in process. Although both books are forbidding in tone and terminology, the editors argue that the problems considered are not purely academic. Far from being a blue-sky issue, hermeneutic grapples with something that faces every preacher-how to make God's word vivid for a congregation-and represents a link between the pastoral ministry and academic theology. Says Robinson: "The new hermeneutic is designed to help the pastor do what...
Died. Sir Jack Hobbs, 81, the Ty Cobb of British cricket, who almost singlehanded won the game's symbolic "Ashes" for Britain in 1926 after 14 straight years of galling Australian supremacy, in 1953 was awarded professional cricket's first knighthood, an honor that forever raised the status of professional players, until then required to address their amateur brethren as "Sir"; after a long illness; in Hove, Sussex...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A story about a bartender who decides to sell the tavern and marry the hat-check girl; with Lee J. Cobb and Gena Rowlands...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney and Lee J. Cobb in The Left Hand...