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...able to bless his congregation, in a sermon on a text from Corinthians, "we are of all men most miserable." It is a triumph of faith, in a godless time, from the unlikeliest of believers...
...disturber of the peace in the eyes of the mighty." Learnedly and often ardently written, The Crucified God is an intellectual delight: Moltmann ranges over history, literature and philosophy to explore the fundamental alienation of the Cross, in which God paradoxically "takes upon himself the eternal death of the godless and the godforsaken, so that all the godless and godforsaken can experience communion with him." Moltmann forces the reader to face the difficult central questions of Christian faith and action in the light of that Cross, and creates a consummate theological work...
Ethics of course comprises part of philosophy, and of religion. It is here in the overlapping area between philosophy and religion, in fact, that I would look for the key to the limitations of a Harvard education today. The Reverand Peter Gomes thinks the phrase "Godless Harvard" is a myth; but observing from my more secular position I am forced to disagree. It's not such a myth that well over half the seats in local churches, including the one funded by the University and led by Gomes, are regularly empty during worship; or that an instructor can't arouse...
...freshman experimental program at Tuskegee Institute of Alabama, his only extended stay outside New England. In 1970, Harvard invited him back to serve as assistant minister to Rev. Charles P. Price, and he returned with both his new perspective on religion and his old stereotype of Harvard's Godless undergraduates intact...
...have never found an image to disappear so quickly," he says. "Godless Harvard, I can say from my four-going-on-five-year tenure here, doesn't exist. Mind you, I'm not talking about my Sunday constituency, but from rather broad experience with students. But if there is no commitment to a particular religious expression, there is an incredible curiosity about and hospitality towards religious ideas...