Word: cullmann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Roman Catholics and Protestants are drawing closer together in the field of Biblical study. At the Sorbonne, about half his students are Catholic. Says Cullmann: "There has been a significant increase in recent years in the amount of freedom Catholics have in working on Biblical texts. Private discussions on theological matters between Catholics and Protestants are being encouraged...
...dapper Cyranosed professor moved eagerly from tea to lecture platform to seminar last week at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Students and faculty members welcomed Oscar Cullmann as one of Europe's outstanding Protestant theologians, author of Peter, an exegetical study of the origins of the Papacy (TIME, Dec. 7, 1953), and of a noted eschatological work, Christ and Time. His listeners found Theologian Cullmann's English fluent, his manner affable, and his occasional comments...
Toward Neoliberalism. Lutheran Cullmann, 53, is a great searcher for new meanings himself. Born in Strasbourg, he has occupied the chair of Early Church History and the New Testament at Switzerland's Basel University since 1938. Theologian Cullmann also teaches early Christianity at the Sorbonne, commuting to Paris for two days of lecturing every fortnight. Cullmann stitches busily away at his theological works on trains between Basel, Paris and Rome (soon to be published is his book on the Christology of the New Testament, and also in progress are a French translation of the New Testament, a commentary...
...Protestant thinking, the trend is away from Karl Earth, whose postwar neutralism has lost him some of his following. There is a tendency on the Continent, as in the U.S., says Cullmann, toward neoliberalism in theology...
...Among Cullmann's most provocative topics is the Christian view of the state, which was the subject of his four lectures at Union last week. The attitude of Christianity toward most modern problems, says Cullmann, can only be found by deduction from the principles of the New Testament, but the Christian attitude toward the state, he holds, is explicit in the Gospel and at its very heart...