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...churchmen are enamored of the present passion for radical pronouncement. In a new book called Who Speaks for the Church? (Abingdon Press), Methodist Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey offers a thoughtful critique of the trend to neglect basic ethical ana ysis in favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
Truncated Barthianism. As a case history of activism gone wild, Ramsey offers a detailed analysis of the World Council's 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, which he attended as an observer. An overwhelming majority of the participants, he says, were doctrinaire liberals who imposed on the conference a "truncated Barthi anism" - a theology emphasizing Christ as a revolutionary figure. Proposals were perfunctorily debated (floor speeches were limited to an average of four minutes) and hurried through (no more than half of those present ever voted...
Nonetheless, in two weeks the 410 delegates rushed out 118 "conclusions." Predictably, one resolution declared that the massive American military presence in Viet Nam was unjustifiable. "Amid the gritty specifics, the crunch of political forces," comments Ramsey, "there are two sides to this and to most world questions to which Christians can with equal sincerity adhere." Another resolution stated without amplification that nuclear war "is against God's will"-ignoring the fact that "the morality of deterrence depends upon it not being wholly immoral for a government ever to use an atomic weapon...
...Nothing tests the character of a people like their penology," said U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clak speaking at Lowell Lecture Hall yesterday...
Police later arrested three Negroes: Donald Ramsey, 26, who wears the fez of the Yoruba sect, a Black Nationalist cult, and whose apartment on the fifth floor of the murder building is decorated with Black Power posters; Thomas Dennis, also 26, a pot-smoking wino who hung out on the hippie fringe and proclaimed a code of racial violence; and Fred Wright, 31, assistant janitor in the building who lived in a small room just off the cellar, and who was held on "related" charges of raping and robbing another hippie girl just hours before the slayings. Wright was reputed...