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...only the Christian Atheists who think it pointless to talk about God. Some contemporary ministers and theologians, who have no doubts that he is alive, suggest that the church should stop using the word for awhile, since it is freighted with unfortunate meanings. They take their clue from Bonhoeffer, whose prison-cell attempt to work out a "nonreligious interpretation of Biblical concepts" focused on Jesus as "the man for others." By talking almost exclusively about Christ, the argument goes, the church would be preaching a spiritual hero whom even non-believers can admire. Yale's Protestant Chaplain William Sloane Coffin...
...More Infallibilities. The new quest for God, which respects no church boundaries, should also contribute to ecumenism. "These changes make many of the old disputes seem pointless, or at least secondary," says Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles. The churches, moreover, will also have to accept the empiricism of the modern outlook and become more secular themselves, recognizing that God is not the property of the church, and is acting in history as he wills, in encounters for which man is forever unprepared...
...gratuitous shock seems to be Malle sporadically rebelling against the Pollyanna optimism of his genre, the happy go-lucky western. His compulsion to zoom in on open wounds, his close-ups of pock-marked faces, his pointless scrutiny of a knife-thrower accidentally wounding his apprentice: these all seem as far from the film's context as the London slums that socially-conscious Tony Richardson muscled into Tom Jones...
...write their theses in the junior year, thus reducing this clutter of obligations for harassed seniors. Just as importantly, its plan will rescue firmly-decided concentrators who take Ec 1 as freshmen from passing a year in limbo before they enter Ec 98. Students regularly attack sophomore tutorial as pointless, disorganized, or simply useless...
...Houses courses can be answered with relative ease. Their small size does not make them inappropriate for General Education, if their subject matter satisfies Gen Ed criteria. Presumably, even departmental offerings could be taught in the Houses. Even if a Master limits the course to House residents, it is pointless to prevent him from offering it to anyone because he is reluctant to offer it to everyone; what is more, Chalmers has said he will not take an inflexible attitude toward admitting non-residents with a special interest in the courses. The courses' small size would not tax facilities available...