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Rudenstine's family background is unusual for a Harvard president, most of whom have been of Northern European, Protestant origin. His father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Russia, and his mother is an Italian-American Roman Catholic.
Yesterday, Natalie Zemon Davis, a professor of history at Princeton University, addressed more than 100 members of the Harvard community on the autobiography of a 17th century Jewish merchant woman. The lecture focused primarily on the first part of Davis's upcoming book, Women on the Margin, in which she...
Bush's words were a direct response to the unusually widespread criticism of the war in American religious circles. The Roman Catholic hierarchy has questioned whether the U.S.-led military action meets the traditional just-war criteria. The war has been branded "morally indefensible" by officials of Eastern Orthodox and...
Protestant and Jewish thinkers developed similar theories. To Martin Luther, the power of temporal rulers was to be "turned only against the wicked, to hold them in check and keep them at peace, and to protect and save the righteous." In practice, however, most clergy in wartime preached the righteousness...
Not all religious thinkers are skeptical. Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law, for one, sees a "regrettable" choice: "either to let ((Saddam)) continue to wreak his havoc unchecked or to defend the cause of justice with arms." Protestant evangelist Billy Graham agrees: "Sometimes it becomes necessary to fight the strong in...