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...cover, I must say!" wrote a Presbyterian minister. "At last the word is out that the sovereignty of God is not bound to the chains of medieval and Puritan culture. The hope of the future lies in an enlightened, united force based on spiritual awareness and conviction." From a Jesuit: "I was delighted with your excellent article. Writer John Elson has put all of us readers in his debt for presenting such a complex subject so well." A United Church of Christ minister stationed in the Philippines thought it "another fine review of contemporary theology." From an about-to-graduate...
...distinctions between Roman Catholic and Protestant worship once symbolized the split between the churches; increasingly, they now express the churches' growth toward unity. In the chapel at the Jesuit University of Santa Clara recently, a Lutheran minister presided as a mixed congregation of Catholics and Protestants recited his church's version of vespers; a priest and a Baptist minister alternated reading the lessons. Last fall, in Boca Raton, Fla., an Anglican priest celebrated Mass before another interfaith group, using a new canon, or prayer of consecration, composed by a Dutch Jesuit...
...Piety based on error is indefensible," says Father John Lawrence McKenzie, and the error that he refers to is the fundamentalist misreading of Scripture. A witty and outspoken Jesuit scholar from Indiana, McKenzie considers it his right and duty to set his fellow churchmen straight about the Bible, which was not open to critical study by Roman Catholics until Pius XII encouraged it in his 1943 encyclical on Scriptural studies. In so doing, McKenzie, at 55, has become the nation's most controversial and quotable Catholic theologian-perhaps because there is all of a sudden so much...
McKenzie spent 18 years at West Baden, and "hated every minute of it. The place was a cultural desert." He finally got a new assignment only when a fellow Jesuit complained that his afternoon typing disturbed the seminary's customary siesta. McKenzie then went to the Jesuits' Loyola University in Chicago, where he taught Biblical studies until last year...
Authority Is Love. "I know of no other U.S. Catholic scholar who loves the church more than McKenzie," says Jesuit Robert Fox, one of his old West Baden students. Not the world's most patient man, McKenzie frequently expresses this love by openly chastizing ecclesiastical persons and institutions that do not live up to his ideal of what Christianity ought to be. Of Rome, he says, half in jest: "It stinks. There are too many clergy there...