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...many things—among them, that he was “very Swedish.”Having left his homeland for a Harvard professorship in 1954, the New Testament scholar made his mark on the Harvard community and beyond with an understanding spirit that sought continuity in faith and integration in academia, said Divinity School professor Harvey Cox. “He was sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part of his personality,” Cox said. Stendahl passed away last week at the age of 86, after several...
...much a sucker for Palestrina and Michelangelo as anyone else). What gets lost amid the Catholic Church's reputation for obscurantism is the fact that the Catholic religion, with its earnest contemplation of Christ's human as well as divine nature, stresses reason as the turnstile to faith and the great good that belief in God can inspire...
Catholicism's rich intellectual tradition makes its faith tradition richer, because the point isn't just to believe but to know WHY you believe. Benedict the scholar, as Jeff Israely and David van Biema noted in their TIME cover story this month, admires America's blending of faith and reason. And yet it's this very facet of our religion that is itching powder to a church that insists that only it can be trusted in the end to exercise reason on moral questions - don't try theology at home, the Vatican always seems to tell us - because it inevitably...
...quieter value as a place to ponder deeper questions than our inane media consider, and to mark life from baptism to burial. Perhaps most important, it's where and how Catholics receive the redemptive tonic of the Eucharist, a sacrament that so palpably but transcendentally expresses Christianity's faith that in the end, despite life's suffering, light always defeats darkness...
...greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family," he said. "We can only move forward if we turn our gaze together to Christ! In the light of faith, we will then discover the wisdom and strength needed to open ourselves to a point of view, which may not necessarily conform to our own ideas." This call for unity comes from a Pope who was seen as a touchstone for much of the divisions when he was a senior Vatican Cardinal...