Word: funking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilfred J. Funk was born to words. He reveled in them, ranked them and made a small fortune from them. A lifelong lexicographer, he was a tireless missionary for the English language, and by the time he died at 83 last week, he had succeeded in converting many others to his cherished belief: "It pays to increase your word power...
...Sycamores, the CRIMSON smiles beneficently; but when there is a facetious fun and games, it is shocking and irresponsible. In that this anti-protest protest aroused such indignation from you and the SDS it was more successful in making its point than the March on Washington. William F. Funk...
...Edited by James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology, the book contains essays on hermeneutic by Ernst Fuchs of Marburg and Gerhard Ebeling of Zurich. Their contributions are analyzed by three topflight U.S. thinkers: Amos Wilder of Harvard Divinity School, Robert Funk of Drew, and John Dillen-berger of San Francisco Theological Seminary...
Cultural Limitations. In his analysis of hermeneutic, Dillenberger argues that the abstract terminology employed by the Germans is too far removed from the language of daily life. Funk feels that the Marburgers sometimes fail to see the relativity of their own position as interpreters. Far from being a philosophical absolute, existentialism is itself a product of history and thus subject to the limitations of language. Theologians therefore must remember that their own expression of the existential questions may be quite as limited as was St. Paul's. Wilder, who is a brother of Playwright Thornton, criticizes Fuchs...
...WILLIAM FUNK Harvard College Cambridge, Mass...