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...words would seem shocking enough coming from someone like Jean-Paul Sartre. As it happens, they were written not by a moody French existentialist but by Thomas J. J. Altizer, 38, associate professor of religion at Atlanta's Emory University, a Methodist school. Moreover, Altizer is not alone in proclaiming his "atheism." Today, one of the most hotly debated trends in U.S. Protestant seminaries is a radical new brand of Christian thinking that takes as its starting point Nietzsche's 19th century rallying cry: "God is dead...
...compulsory chapel and ladle out doses of manly Christian advice to the spiritually downhearted. Today, he is likely to wear wrinkled chinos instead of a turned-around collar, read Playboy as well as Plato and center his operations in a coffeehouse rather than in a Gothic church. Says Methodist Chaplain Alfred Dale, of San Francisco State College, "I'm generally where the action...
...clerical action seekers have brought a lot of excitement and experiment to a pastoral job that once ranked low among church assignments. Before the war, there were only a hundred full-time Methodist ministers on the nation's campuses, most of them waiting for a good parish assignment to open up. Now the Methodist Church has more than 400 full-time campus ministers, many of them so caught up by the challenge that they want the job for life...
...blend of baroque Romanita and Christ-inspired simplicity, of tradition and innovation, the procession symbolized in microcosm what the Second Vatican Council has become. Protestant Theologian Albert Outler, an observer at Vatican II for the World Methodist Council, sums it up as a "Reformation, Roman-style " Unlike Luther's drastic break with the medieval past, it is a reformation in which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which...
Consider the Context. Nonetheless, a majority of church leaders see no or little danger in federal support of church-associated agencies. Methodist Bishop James Mathews of Boston argues that Project Head Start, for example, is not Government subsidy of religion, since "the church is not receiving the benefit of the money but offering itself as a channel. The church, as a church, is not receiving the money." The president of the Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, agrees. "We believe that the proper relationship is one of functional interaction," he says. "As we see it, the divinely instituted...