Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...churchmen are enamored of the present passion for radical pronouncement. In a new book called Who Speaks for the Church? (Abingdon Press), Methodist Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
Judge Cohn's thesis, which has intrigued Christian Scriptural experts in Jerusalem, is contained in an article in the current issue of the Israel Law Review. Analyzing the Gospel accounts of the Passion in the light of known facts about legal customs and traditions of Jesus' time, Cohn insists that Jesus was tried and condemned for the political crime of insurrection-a charge that could be handled only by the Roman Procurator and not by a Jewish court. The Justice supports this suggestion by reference to the Gospel texts: when Jesus was asked by Pilate...
After sitting in on rehearsals last week for the U.S. premiere of his two-hour oratorio, the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke, Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki was exuberant. The conductor, he said, "is excellent. He understands modern music-he has composed it himself. I have complete trust in him." Penderecki was talking about the musical director of the Minneapolis Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 44. Later in the week, Skrowaczewski returned the compliment by leading his orchestra, soloists and local choristers in two austerely jolting performances of the Passion at Minneapolis' Northrup Auditorium...
...great orchestras of the world." The orchestra has launched a drive to raise $10 million in capital funds, is planning to enlarge from its current 94 players to 105, and is already underwriting more tours. This month it will airlift the entire production of Penderecki's Passion to New York City for a performance in Carnegie Hall. "In a sense," says Orchestra Manager Richard Cisek, "we're declaring war on the big five...
Nevertheless the general situation does create a dilemma for those of us who find ourselves in passionate opposition to the general drift of American society--a position often reached with uneasy astonishment. As students and teachers we have no objective interest in kicking down the far from sturdy walls that still do protect us. For all their faults and inadequacies the universities, and especially perhaps Harvard, do constitute a moat behind which it is still possible to examine and indict the destructive trends in our society. There may be some students at Harvard, perhaps on occasion even a stray faculty...