Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUDAISM: Emerging from the ghetto in the past century, Judaism set up its rabbis in the prevailing Christian style as remote religious functionaries. Many Jews are now trying to reinstate the traditional role of the rabbi, which, as Orthodox Rabbi Joseph Karasick points out, is to be "a teacher, guide and judge, integral to the community." In emphasizing the classic concept of the rabbi, the three U.S. branches of Judaism may grow closer together...
...theology of hope-rejects the death of God by stating, in effect, that God is alive and well in history. German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg cleared the stage for this movement by challenging Biblical Demythologizer Rudolph Bultmann, the dominant voice in postwar German theology. Pannenberg dramatically asserted God's past action in history by reaffirming that Christ actually rose from the dead, and established his future activity by making the eschaton ("last things") once again real and important: Judgment and Christ's Second Coming were the proper endpoint of history. But it remained for Jürgen Moltmann...
...collective history as in each man's psychological nature. The "coming God," as Baum sees him, offers man a special freedom to rise above the determinism of his psyche. "Human life is open-ended," Baum writes. The Word of God is a summons to man to transcend his past, the Spirit is the gift of grace to answer that summons...
Whatever new or old doors theology enters, for many men the reality of God in the future may well remain as elusive as it has been in the past. For all of the hoping, God will still seem painfully far ahead; for all of the evidence at hand, the rumors of angels will often be too faint to hear. What then? In secular society, as in earlier eras, the question mark will remain. But so will the glimmers of answers...
...background to last week's celebrations was a retrospective of Coward's career that was unprecedented even for as oft-revived a writer as he is. A parade of his plays and revues flickered past on BBC-TV. The National Film Theater began to spin out a series of his films. Occasions like 70th birthdays tend to bring out hyperbole, and uncritical reassessments blossomed in the press. Some critics went so far as to rank him with Sheridan and Wilde, or to call him England's greatest living playwright. Such judgments overlooked the extent to which Coward...