Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been confronted with the question of God," says one such politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Lévi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another variety of unbelief: the atheism of distraction, people who are just "too damn busy" to worry about...
...produces heroes, so the antiwar movement must make martyrs. Last week's leading candidates were Pacifist David J. Miller, 23, a graduate of Jesuit-run Le Moyne College in Syracuse, who claims that "the only thing I'm expert at is refusing to be drafted," and Brown University Dropout David Mitchell, also 23, who founded the Brooklyn-based End the Draft Committee and its monthly publication Downdraft, but maintains that he would fight to defend his country against attack. Both refuse to apply for classification as conscientious objectors-though neither has shown any reticence about offering his conscience...
...Christian paradox that Protestants and Roman Catholics, separated in worship, are coming together quite naturally at the level where doctrine and theology are studied. Manhattan's Protestant Union Theological Seminary and Jesuit-run Fordham University are about to take the next ecumenical step forward by creating what may grow into a common graduate program in theology. Beginning in September, the two institutions will share libraries and accept each other's credits for graduate degrees; each school, moreover, will list in its catalogue five courses available at the other institution. As a start to ward an exchange of professors...
Chairs for Catholics. A number of historically Protestant divinity schools have concluded that their faculties are incomplete without the presence of at least one Roman Catholic. Yale, which welcomed Jesuit John Courtney Murray as a visiting professor of philosophy in 1951-52, last semester had a Roman Catholic teaching at its divinity school: Carmelite Father Roland Murphy, an Old Testament expert from Catholic University. Harvard's divinity school has had a chair of Catholic studies since 1958; currently, the professorship is held by Jesuit Sociologist Joseph Fichter. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie* is on the staff of the University...
...Walter Brueggemann of Missouri's Eden Theological Seminary, a United Church of Christ minister, teaches Old Testament to nuns and laywomen studying theology at Roman Catholic Webster College near St. Louis, and an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Donald Winslow, is teaching early church history at Weston College, the Jesuit seminary near Boston. On the student level, seminaries are frequently nondenominational in fact, if not quite yet in name. Harvard's divinity school currently has 14 Catholic students, while Union has 17-including several priests and a nun. Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 28 Protestant ministers and three...