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...other men who came to the Divinity School this fall are Arthur J. Dyck and Ralph B. Potter J.r, assistant professors of social ethics, who split their time between teaching at the Divinity School! and research at the Harvard Center for Population Studies. The year-old Center coordinates work on world health problems, medical care, and the development and circulation of new birth control devices...
Potter and Dyck trade slashing repartee in their office and seem as far removed from the medieval scholastics as the atomic bomb is from the cross bow, but they are faced with a special problem. "Theologians working in urban affairs and civil rights can justify their work on the grounds that the Bible says 'God so loved the world'--which means the whole world, everyone, not just good little Christians,'" Potter says. "But we have to work against Biblical injunctions like 'Be fruitful and multiply...
Like most of the other world-oriented theologians, Dyck and Potter have had training in sociology and ethics. This double-barreled education allows them to conduct scientific analyses as rigorous as those done by secular scientists. "We can't suppose that the Bible gives us any special source of knowledge that no one else can tap," Dyck says. "We have to know what we are talking about...
Segregation of classes, of disciplines, of neighborhoods--these are, according to Adams, the things that mark an ailing society. "Churches almost inevitably participate in these segregations," he says. "The local congrega-5ARTHUR J. DYCK (left) and RALPH B. POTTER JR., part-time teachers, part-time population experts, try to teach "love thy neighbor," not "be fruitful and multiply...
Mayo's Neurologist Peter J. Dyck checked the patients for possible nerve disorders; none were significant. The researchers found, as they expected, that most of the restless-leg patients were anxious or depressed, and most of them had more severe episodes at times of stress. Men and women are likely to be affected at any age, and it may be that as much as 5% of the population suffers occasional touches of the disorder, though not severe enough to send the sufferers to a doctor...