Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> "New Morality" diminishes biblical absolutes of right and wrong, as in Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics, 1966.
> Pope Paul's reassertion of the ban on artificial birth control, 1968.
> Age of titans ends with deaths of C. S. Lewis, Martin Buber, Albert Schweitzer, Paul Tillich, John Courtney Murray, Thomas Merton, Harry Emerson Fosdick-and the pre-eminent theologian Karl Barth.
There is a very practical reason why we as Christians need a theology of revolution. Without it we will be at a total loss about what to do for the rest of the century. -Carl Braaten, The Future of God
FOR many who are revolutionizing the ministry, action is its own imperative. They feel no lack of any underpinning theology; a pressing social need is Gospel enough. For others, the words of Jesus are a better rationale: "As long as you did it for one of these, the least of...