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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not merely the conflict of one celebrity priest against the hierarchy, for Küng is part of an international group of theologians who are demanding that the Catholic Church take a bold new look at Christology (the theological interpretation of Christ). Influenced by liberal Protestants, these theologians are saying things about Christ's nature that only years ago would never have been uttered publicly by priests in good standing. Though these theologians still profess belief that Christ is divine, conservative opponents maintain that in the New Christology, Christ is not as divine as he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Debate over Jesus' Divinity | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

ASIDE FROM THE influence of a coterie of egalitarian and moralistic French philosophers and the vestiges of old aristocratic and peasant values that have mediated industrial class conflict, the swing to the left can be attributed in part to the sheer expression of shifting material interests of the French. Ironically, the present majority has hastened its own demise precisely because it has been so successful in stimulating economic expansion and industrialization for the past 20 years. Aided by a government that maintained its legitimacy only as long as the assembly lines were pouring out increasing numbers of cars, clothes...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Revolution or Reform? | 2/23/1978 | See Source »

...UNIVERSITY'S ANNOUNCEMENT late last week of the decision to sell over $600,000 of stock in two banks that lend money to the apartheid government of South Africa came as a surprise to almost everyone involved in the divestiture conflict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stock Sales: Mixing Finance With Politics | 2/23/1978 | See Source »

That may have been Reid's idea when he set out to write The Offering, but somewhere along the way he got lost. Instead of a powerful tale of emotional and cultural conflict, Reid has written an extraordinarily convoluted and cliche-ridden spy story, replete with stoic federal agents, femmes fatales and toothless goons with a penchant for breaking people's kneecaps (a fine old Irish revolutionary tradition). The accent is definitely on the shoot-em-up angle; and if Father O'Neill behaves less like a man of the cloth and more like a pleasantly libidinous edition of Robert...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Broken Dreams and Kneecaps | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...press and TV are routinely subject to military censorship, the Hirbet Hiza incident marked the first time a fictional work had been suppressed for political reasons. Premier Menachem Begin defended Hammer's decision, but Author Smilansky was irate. "I didn't write this story as a conflict between Jews and Arabs," he insisted. "I wrote this as a man who was hurt by what he saw. This story is about Israel, it's about Viet Nam, it's about any place where someone is suddenly caught in war. Instead of covering up what happened, we must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Untimely Story | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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