Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong with U.S. theological seminaries and divinity schools? Plenty, charges Hartford Seminary Foundation's Peter Berger, 33, a Lutheran sociologist whose vivid attacks (The Precarious Vision, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies) on the organizational church are fast earning him a reputation as a kind of Connecticut Kierkegaard. Writing in the July issue of Theology Today, Berger argues that the seminaries have become so concerned with trying to provide for the short-term institutional needs of the church that they are in danger of forgetting what a Protestant minister really ought to be: first and foremost, a theological scholar...
There is, as the great Dane Sören Kierkegaard wrote, "an infinite qualitative difference" between time and eternity, between man and God. The only bridge to God is the one that God provides-the bridge of faith that can come to man only after he has recognized the futility of his own efforts to meet his Creator...
...Notre Dame students than witty, incisive English Professor Frank O'Malley, 28 years on the faculty and the university's most inspiring undergraduate teacher. O'Malley plumbs life's most basic emotions, using Charles Peguy to examine the virtue of hope, Claudel to plumb suffering, Kierkegaard to emphasize the shallowness of religion without love. When he reaches students, O'Malley often changes their lives, teaching them to love learning and learn love. "The totality of life has hit me," said one of his students last week. "The act of knowing and the act of being...
...expects Emersonians to make the scene for a full four years. Nor has the school any established curriculum; a teacher must create his own class. For $300 a quarter (or less if the applicant is short of money), students are prodded to find "new alternatives" in theology, Kierkegaard. Shakespeare and "Now Theater" ("It's like spontaneous...
...Avventura (in Italian). Director Michelangelo Antonioni draws with exquisite skill a picture of lovers pairing unhappily on an Aeolian beach-characters bored, futile and afflicted with Kierkegaard's "sickness unto death...