Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Influenced by Training. Acquitting Shacter of the charge, Judge Alexander Harvey II declared that his beliefs were clearly "a product of a faith." Harvey pointed out that Shacter was strongly influenced by his early training in Judaism, and indeed had used such religious words as sacred and holy entity. Thus, said the judge, the ruling was consistent with the opinion in the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Seeger. In that decision, Justice Tom Clark broadly interpreted the test of religious belief. To qualify as a C.O., wrote Clark, a man's convictions must be "sincere...
...believe in Christ has always been, as Kierkegaard put it, an inexplicable leap of faith. The most profound preacher of that mystery in the 20th century was Karl Barth, who died last week at the age of 82. Eulogized as the century's most significant religious thinker, Barth changed the course of Protestant theology in his lifetime almost singlehandedly. Though he abhorred theological systems, he produced, in his 14-volume Church Dogmatics, the most powerful exposition of Protestant thought since Calvin's Institutes...
...Berlin under Church Historian Adolf von Harnack. Perhaps the greatest of Protestant liberals, Harnack stressed the importance of Jesus as a supreme ethical teacher more than as God's son, and Christianity as the culmination of mankind's spiritual aspirations. World War I destroyed Barth's faith in secular optimism; he was also appalled that his teachers supported the war policy of Kaiser Wilhelm. While serving as a pastor of a Reformed church in the Swiss village of Safenwill, Barth returned to the close study of Scripture. In 1918, he published a modest little book called...
...authority of Scripture. The Bible, he wrote, was not man's word about God, but God's word about man. Barth's thinking, which came to be known as "crisis theology" or "neo-orthodoxy," stressed a God who stood in constant judgment against idolatrous counterfeiters of faith who sought to create him in their own image...
...book was a frank, self-effacing narrative of Merton's peripatetic youth: his dizzying year at Cambridge, his first grapplings with the craft of poetry, his mildly wicked undergraduate years at Columbia (including a one-meeting membership in the Young Communist League), his ultimate discovery of a faith and a vocation. It was a book suffused with spiritual zeal, and was perhaps the last great flowering of Catholic romanticism. Its perfume was provocative. Under its spell, disillusioned veterans, students, even teen-agers flocked to monasteries across the country either to stay or visit as retreatants...