Word: proclaimed
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...concepts-Torah, Talmud, Halacha-from the Exodus to the Nazi holocaust and the creation of modern Israel. The history of Judaism, he says, is a story of a people's encounters with God; the Jews were the first to perceive the unique oneness of God, the first to proclaim that true freedom is only to be found in compliance with the divine will, the first to understand the divine origin and goal of history...
...result, Rambouillet turned out to be a reconciliation of sorts. "The maximum that one could expect, the minimum that one could hope for," said one observer. It was a relaxed and relieved Erhard who disembarked back in Germany to proclaim: "This was a good encounter-there wasn't a single jarring note." Still, De Gaulle has a press conference scheduled for Feb. 4, and Erhard knows as well as anyone the general's penchant for pyrotechnics in these semiannual pronunciamentos. "Remember that I have my birthday on Feb. 4," Erhard cracked to his host before leaving...
Parental Abdication. At the same time, adults who lived through a great depression, a shattering war, an anxious peace, and the whole onslaught of existentialism are less inclined than ever to proclaim what Margaret Mead calls "parental imperatives." Some of the slackening has been as silly as the diffident dad in Max Schulman's I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf, who takes his son on "palship walks." But much of the diminishing tension results from parental intent as well as parental abdication. Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons finds many young parents "committed to a policy of training serious independence...
...Common Task. When they consider the teachings of the churches, many theologians today are inclined to ask themselves the question put to Ezekiel: "Can these bones live?" How, in the secular era, can the church proclaim Christ in words that the world will hear? There is no easy answer, although many churchmen agree on some qualities that any theology of the future must have. It will be ecumenical. "Renewal is the invitation to a common task," says the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Küng. "Everything today is interdependent." It will be existential. "Theology is overdeveloped in systems and arguments...
Faith of the Future? Without question, most Christians are not ready to proclaim the death of the church or to embrace the skeletonized faith of the future that some modern-day reformers propose. The World Council's Visser 't Hooft notes that the much-questioned territorial parish has proved to be a valuable instrument in Soviet-bloc countries, where it remains the one autonomous institution in a would-be omnicompetent state. Roman Catholic Layman Michael Novak warns that even if the institutional church withers away, another will eventually take its place, and that "there...