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...charge of subversive or left-wing influence. The reason: deference to the rapidly growing opposition from right-wing and Catholic circles to restrictive government measures. The reaction of Barcelona's clergy to this first police violation of ecclesiastical property in the postwar era was prompt and stinging. Parish priests were instructed to rail against the police intrusion and denial of the right of assembly in their Sunday sermons last week. One, following the call to the traditional prayer "for the health of the Chief of State," also pointedly asked for prayers for "our companions, the students, who are passing...
...genius of this place," says Scott, "is the concept of theology as an interdisciplinary undertaking." >JOSEPH SITTLER, 61, Lutheran, professor of theology. The leading campus spokesman for ecumenism, he combined parish ministry with teaching at a Lutheran seminary before coming to Chicago. He says Chicago "is not protecting any theological tradition. The tradition here is hard-nosed research...
...Shantung Compound. The greatness of Chicago, says Gilkey, "is that it views Christianity not as separate from culture, but as its spiritual essence." -MARTIN MARTY, 37, Lutheran, associate professor of church history. Among the top historians of the Christian church in America, Marty served for eight years as a parish minister, is an associate editor of the Christian Century. He went to Chicago Divinity because it "is short on ideology and because pragmatism has never been a dirty word here...
...Debt of Gratitude. Chicago's questioning empiricism has made it preeminently a school for training scholars and theologians rather than parish ministers. The role of Chicago as a teacher of teachers persuaded Paul Tillich to spend his last years "repaying the debt" of gratitude to the school that has "prepared more professors than any other theological center in America." Among alumni are 35 seminary presidents and 2,000 professors and school administrators. Through them the school's pragmatic Christianity has percolated to every corner...
Canceled Checks. As for Kansas City, after a federation of churches signed a $127,350 contract with Alinsky, at least ten leading financial contributors to one of the city's foremost Episcopal parishes refused to sign any more pledge checks; one millionaire eliminated a fat bequest to the parish from his will. Undeterred, Alinsky publicly described the city's Negro area as a "zoo," got embroiled in an acrimonious argy-bargy with Board of Education President Homer Wadsworth, who declared: "Alinsky has the smell of the '30s about him." Retorted Alinsky: "We still have the smell...