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...movement also has produced at least one substantial event: the recent conference in the School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., at which 20 scholars, including Fisher and DeWolf, strove to promulgate "a theology of survival." One of the papers delivered there-by Claremont Theologian John B. Cobb Jr., originator of the conference-amounts to the most cogent statement yet of where philosophical and religious thought has gone wrong in abetting bad ecological practices...
Madly Christian. Cobb faults modern philosophy for drawing too sharp a metaphysical distinction between man and his environment. Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Sartre-none has granted the subhuman world "a reality such that it can be the object of man's concern," he writes. Theology has followed suit. A weak faith in the value of creation tends to undermine belief in the Creator, and vice versa. Man is left only with his self-interest, which, however enlightened, will not provide sufficient motivation for ecological survival...
...Cobb maintains, must somehow come to believe once again that nature has "some claim upon him, some intrinsic right to exist and to prosper." As one path to such a belief, Cobb proposes a kind of ecological asceticism, a stripping away of the cocoon of contemporary affluence that dulls man's sensitivity to the processes and problems of his environment. "We might even be so madly Christian one day," he says, "as to ask to have our salaries cut by 25% so as not to be tempted to acquire material things...
...many feel that Kilbridge is delaying the formation of any committee until everyone leaves Cambridge in June. After requesting a formal state-ment from HGSDA Council President Harry Cobb before making an appointment, he insisted on faculty approval. Kilbridge has also expressed doubts about establishing a fact-finding committee without the express consent of the University President and the Corporation...
...cowardice and sues for divorce-a maneuver designed to expose the sinners and, incidentally, the hypocrisy of the state of Tennessee. Jones' "liberation" is his murder, but along the way he frees his brethren and damns the Old South, as presented by his pompous white lawyer Lee J. Cobb...