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...sources of radical and rebellious Roman Catholic thinking used to be the industrial missions in urban France or the theological faculties of German universities. Lately, the fount of ideas that may skirt heresy - or may become the accepted reshaping of church thinking - is the staid and sober Netherlands...
...soft shoulder; a good head ("he wrote a book, or sumpin'" a crewman remarks) but with a capacity for human error (he rams his boat into the dock, then gets it cut in half by a Japanese destroyer). Above all "the skinny, boyish lieutenant from Boston" is a fount of homely wisdom. One can sense the echo, if only dimly, of the famous Kennedy rhetoric: "They'll do a good job for us" he says of his crew, "if we do one for them...
Protestants on Tradition. The dialogue with Rome has contributed to a new concern of Faith and Order's ec umenical theologians-the nature and scope of Christian tradition. Both Rome and Orthodoxy accept apostolic tradition as well as scripture as a fount of Divine Revelation; virtually all Protestants follow the rule of sola scriptura -the Bible alone as the repository of God's message. Yet much of the talk at the Conference was devoted to the way tradition has shaped man's interpretation of the Bible. One probable consequence of this new concern: a re-examination...
This is the kind of statesmanship, from a fount of wisdom, that can be appreciated all the way to the White House...
Lush & Cool. Opened in 1912 after complex litigation, Rice is so rich (net worth: $101 million) that it charges no tuition, and so picks only top students. Long mistaken for a pure engineering school, Rice in fact is a fount of the humanities. Though Rice students endure Math 100, a required trial in orderly thinking, the majority wind up in liberal arts...