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...that the traditional idea of God is dead and turn to other concerns. Another way, favored by Biblical Scholar Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples, is to see the meaning of God in existential terms. But many U.S. Protestant theologians find it impossible to live without God or to preach him existentially, and the process theologians are trying another way based on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and his best-known disciple, Charles Hartshorne of the University of Texas...
...staff; one of his 14 associate evangelists, the Rev. Howard Jones of Ohio, is a Negro, and Billy has invited another Negro cleric to join the Graham organization. Speaking in the South, Billy has denounced racial discrimination as a product of man's sinfulness; he has refused to preach in South Africa because his audiences would be segregated...
Brown will preach at the 11 a.m. Easter service in Memorial Church...
...meaning in religious terminology derived from tribal society-God as Father, for example-or even in the metaphysical discourse of town culture that defined God as Supreme Being. Its proper language is, in the broadest sense of the word, politics. Thus, says Cox, if the church is to preach God to the emerging secular city, it must find a secular, pragmatic way of proclaiming him in mis-worldly terms. This will not be easily or quickly discovered, since the secular city is still a developing reality, and its language and concepts far from established. For that reason, Cox suggests that...
...novel writing but a messianic effort at transmogrifying the entire U.S.-society, psyches, applecarts and all. That this is the business of a holy man, or an adman, does not deter him. Mailer yearns to be hip, but he is inescapably square. For only a born square would preach the way he does. That is what is exasperating, touching, and ultimately tedious about...