Word: hope
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...general, the very uncertainty of world oil-reserve estimates should reinforce the urgency of Carter's pleas for conservation. No responsible government can base policy on the hope that the most optimistic calculation of world resources is right-and that the technology will develop to pump the oil out at an acceptable price even if it can be found. In embracing a very gloomy estimate of world reserves and production capabilities, Carter may indeed have erred on the side of caution, convinced that that was the safest course for the security of the nation...
Women Priests. Both Donald Coggan and Pope Paul desire eventual reunification. Their joint declaration last week, issued after the two men presided together over a prayer service in the Sistine Chapel, included a pledge "to live and work courageously in the hope of reconciliation and unity in our common Lord." Yet there was no further mention of intercommunion, and the prelates noted "serious obstacles both of the past and of recent origin." Presumably, the new obstacle is the ordination of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in the U.S., a move heartily approved by the visiting Archbishop and adamantly...
...Moltmann (Harper & Row; 401 pages; $15). Germany is to Christian theology what France is to wine, and Moltmann, 51, a colleague of Küng's at the University of Tubingen, is one of its most eminent Protestant thinkers. Moltmann's first major work, The Theology of Hope (1964), based on the somewhat neglected promise of Christ's coming reign in a kingdom of righteousness, was a ringing call to optimism and activism during the days of "God is dead" theology. Then, in The Crucified God (1972), he looked back to Christ's Passion as proof...
...third book, newly translated into English, is a study of the doctrine of the church-the church being defined as "the present realization of the remembrance and hope of Christ." Moltmann believes that the church, caught in the ambiguities of the present, must grasp both the past and the future. Without this balance, he warns, the maintenance of church institutions can become all-important, and belief in Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection could "decay into a powerless historical recollection...
...prototypical romance. The haughty Rochester had to be maimed and blinded before he was suitably domesticated as a mate for the governess heroine. If this deep psychological lode still runs through newly raised consciousnesses, then The Thorn Birds will probably clean up as handsomely as its promoters hope. In any case, its fate will be a barometer of taste circa the late '70s. McCullough has not made literature. For a season or so, her book will make commercial history. Paul Gray