Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England, the modernist movement found a voice in Irish-born Jesuit George Tyrrell. A convert from Protestantism, Tyrrell proposed that the church restate its beliefs in the light of discoveries made by science and philosophy-a view that Rome found no more palatable than the novelties of Loisy. Expelled from the Jesuits, Tyrrell was excommunicated in 1907; he refused to confess his errors, died two years later. Yet even Pius X was moved by Tyrrell's death. "Unlike most arch-heretics, he died a good Christian," the Pontiff was said to have told a friend...
...faculty of the Jesuit College at Woodstock, Md., has voted to unite with the Yale University Divinity school and move to New Haven if Rome approves the plan...
Woodstock College is the final seminary of the 15-year program of studies most Jesuits undergo before ordination into the priesthood. The College will retain its separate legal identity in the cooperative venture which the Yale Corporation has approved. The Jesuit faculty would share the Divinity School facilities until a decision is reached about what kind of building, if any, would need to be constructed...
Visiting faculty members often tell him that their summer school course was "the best class I ever taught." Regular Harvard faculty members are occasionally more skeptical -- "any teacher who likes out and sees a class with a high school junior and a Jesuit Father won't know quite what he's talking to," Crooks comments. But Harvard Faculty members too are often pleasantly surprised. One Harvard professor, who taught a popular summer school course with about two-thirds non-Harvard enrollment, recalled that, "I was prepared for a disappointment, but it turned out to be some of the most rewarding...
While theologians like to be popular, some worry because every new ecumenical venture invariably seeks out the same familiar names. Methodist Albert Outler of Dallas, who was an observer at the Vatican Council, is the automatic choice of any new Catholic-sponsored organization. Jesuit John Courtney Murray ranks equally high in Protestant esteem. So great is their concern for church unity that these ecumenists are generally reluctant to turn down any serious new offer-and the result is still another amiable interlocking directorate. "It is the thing to do," says one popular Protestant theologian. "If you say no too often...