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...membership at heart." Proctor, however, has a few involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American and urban education), drawing only a part-time salary from Abyssinian. At the same time the Virginia-born educator promises to preach three Sundays a month at the church and shore up its sagging administration. Abyssinian, the oldest major black Baptist church in the North, could use some reinvigoration. It was no secret to anyone that Adam Powell preferred sunning in the Bahamas to sweating it out in Harlem. As Powell's political...
...priest" should be dropped, Küng says, "since, according to the New Testament view, all believers are 'priests.' " Thus he prefers the more functional names of the New Testament like presbyter, elder and overseer, or simply the generic title "leader" or "presider," denoting one elected to preach the word and preside at the community's sacramental experiences: baptism and the Eucharist...
...liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Editor Stephen Schlesinger, 29, admits to no clairvoyance in foreseeing Edmund Muskie's fall and the rise of George McGovern-only partisanship.* Schlesinger, the son of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., founded the magazine in 1970 as a podium from which to preach party reform and "call attention to the dead leadership...
...Nyerere said in 1966. "But what I cannot understand is the policy based on the idea that one way of assuring world peace is to ostracize China. This yellow disease!" (Richard Nixon would now agree.) As for Communism, Nyerere wonders: "What is its application to Africa? How do you preach it in Sukumaland [a district of Tanzania]? In a peasant country, without feudalism, how do you do it? From a distance, Africa may look like a classical Communist situation. But, in reality, it's a Sukumaland situation...
Ironically, Daly, and to some extent Ruether, seem to be practicing what they preach against: gender stereotyping. They do not seem to recognize that power could possibly corrupt women, just as it has men. Many theologians would also reject Mary Daly's dismissal of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ. He was incarnated as a man and chose male apostles, they would argue, because that was the need of his time: a female Messiah (and even female apostles) would have been outlandish. But there is no reason that Jesus and his Apostles could not represent feminine aspirations in their...