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Commenting on the Pope's dramatic call for world peace, made last Friday before diplomatic delegates assembled in the Sistine Chapel, Oberman said that the Pope's message is possibly "more significant than the usual Easter type of peace talk...
...Ecumenical Council has tremendous reform potential, and every Protestant should be watching its proceedings with hope rather than suspicion," Heiko A. Oberman, associate professor of Church Divinity History in the Harvard Divinity School, said yesterday...
...Oberman will leave Cambridge on Nov. 15 to become a non-voting Protestant delegate-observer at the meeting of the supreme deliberative body of the Catholic Church, officially termed Ecumenical Vatican II, which began last Thursday in Rome...
...would be romantic," Oberman remarked, "to believe that a break so profound as that caused by the Reformation, with a history of 400 years, will be healed in a short time. But for a long time we have been fighting phantoms on this issue we can try to break through the phantoms and deal with the real theological points that divide...
...Oberman predicted that in the long run it will prove "disastrous" if the council moves too quickly toward...