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...Swedish film 491 is a sardonic shocker that takes its title from Christ's commandment to forgive sinners "until seventy times seven," or 490 times (Matthew 18:21-22). Apparently suggesting the unforgivable 491st sin, the film depicts a Swedish sociological experiment in which a young bachelor named Krister (connoting Christ) shelters six juvenile delinquents who proceed to wreck his home, sell his furniture, maim themselves, cavort with a prostitute and force her to have inter course with a dog. Assorted scenes evoke other perversions from sodomy to fellatio; the picture ends with Krister's arrest...
Prestige of Science. Faith in God survived scientific attack only when the churches came to realize that the reli gious language of the Bible is what Theologian Krister Stendahl calls "poetry-plus, rather than science-minus." Nowadays not even fundamentalists are upset by the latest cosmological theories of astronomers. Quasars, everyone agrees, neither prove nor disprove divine creation; by pushing back the boundaries of knowledge 8 billion light years without finding a definite answer, they do, in a way, admit its possibility. Nonetheless, science still presents a challenge to faith?in a new and perhaps more dangerous...
Members of both Faculties have questioned whether a professional school should take an active part in undergraduate teaching. The problem, Krister Stendahl, chairman of the subcommittee, says, is deciding "what it means to teach religion in the context of arts and sciences and what it means to teach ministers...
...more realistic about death," says one psychiatrist. "But inside I think they are more afraid. Those old religious assurances that there would be a gathering-in some day have largely been discarded, and I see examples all the time of neuroses caused by the fear of death." Harvard Theologian Krister Stendahl agrees. "Socrates," he points out, "died in good cheer and in control, unlike the agony of Jesus with his deep human cry of desertion and loneliness. Americans tend to behave as Socrates did. But there is more of what Jesus stands for lurking in our unconsciousness...
Other predictions: Adlai Stevenson, Thurgood Marshall, Jose Figueres, Philip Hofer, Whitney Young, Mark Rothko, Wilmarth Lewis, Mary I. Bunting, Krister Stendahl, Donald R. Griffin, George Beadle Alfred H. Barr, Leonard Baskin, Archibald Cox, Paul Nitze, Alfred A. Knopf, Walter Muir Whitehill, and Clifford K. Shipton...