Word: potter
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Princeton followed with touchdowns the next two times it had the ball. Landeck scored both, on a 4-yard sweep and on an 11-yard double reverse. The Tiger tailback hit Bill Potter on a 26-yard pass for Princeton's final score, early in the fourth period...
...Potter and Dyck trade slashing repartee in their office and seem as far removed from the medieval scholastics as the atomic bomb is from the cross bow, but they are faced with a special problem. "Theologians working in urban affairs and civil rights can justify their work on the grounds that the Bible says 'God so loved the world'--which means the whole world, everyone, not just good little Christians,'" Potter says. "But we have to work against Biblical injunctions like 'Be fruitful and multiply...
Like most of the other world-oriented theologians, Dyck and Potter have had training in sociology and ethics. This double-barreled education allows them to conduct scientific analyses as rigorous as those done by secular scientists. "We can't suppose that the Bible gives us any special source of knowledge that no one else can tap," Dyck says. "We have to know what we are talking about...
...Potter is especially impressed with his colleagues' can-do attitude. "We can't just sit back and say it's God's will that there is a flood in the Middle West," he says. "We have the technology to handle things like that and we have to use it. Throwing up our hands in despair won't get us anywhere...
Segregation of classes, of disciplines, of neighborhoods--these are, according to Adams, the things that mark an ailing society. "Churches almost inevitably participate in these segregations," he says. "The local congrega-5ARTHUR J. DYCK (left) and RALPH B. POTTER JR., part-time teachers, part-time population experts, try to teach "love thy neighbor," not "be fruitful and multiply...