Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even as the Soviet Union and his other Communist allies arranged bilateral talks with Bonn, he went right on insisting that West Germany must recognize his regime as the price for any negotiations about lessening tensions. But last week, at Ulbricht's bidding, the East German Volkskammer (People's Chamber) unanimously passed a resolution empowering the government to "take the necessary steps" toward "peaceful coexistence" with West Germany on the basis of "internationally binding agreements." Significantly, the resolution did not insist on full diplomatic recognition of Ulbricht's German Democratic Republic as the precondition for talks...
...Stalinist had been under some pressure from Moscow to adopt a more flexible approach and had responded by changing his tactics but not his ultimate goal of full diplomatic recognition for his half of Germany. A poll published in the illustrated magazine Stern last week showed that most West Germans were more inclined than a few years ago to grant much of what Ulbricht wants. According to the poll, 74% advocate talks between Brandt and Ulbricht and 68% believe that the former German lands now contained within Poland are lost forever...
...most promising new developments-the theology of hope-rejects the death of God by stating, in effect, that God is alive and well in history. German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg cleared the stage for this movement by challenging Biblical Demythologizer Rudolph Bultmann, the dominant voice in postwar German theology. Pannenberg dramatically asserted God's past action in history by reaffirming that Christ actually rose from the dead, and established his future activity by making the eschaton ("last things") once again real and important: Judgment and Christ's Second Coming were the proper endpoint of history. But it remained...
Johannes Metz, a German Roman Catholic theologian-of-hope who is working with Moltmann on a new book of political theology, makes a similar assessment of the Christian impact on the world. "The secularity of the world, as we see it today in a globally heightened form, has fundamentally arisen not against Christianity but through it," he writes. "It is originally a Christian event." So is it also, in a strikingly different way, in the thinking of Roman Catholic Theologian Gregory Baum. In a study called Man Becoming, to be published next spring, New York-based Father Baum perceives...
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