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...University of Berlin's theology faculty, a post he held until his death. A product of both the Enlightenment and Germany's Romantic revival, Schleiermacher saw clearly that the traditional bases for faith in God were gradually being eroded by man's intellectual advances. Rationalist historians had begun to cast doubt on the authenticity of Scripture; scientific discoveries made the hypothesis of a creator God seem less and less necessary...
...lies beyond, the new eschatology may make it harder for some people to face death. Says the Rev. Kevin Wall, prior of the Dominican House of Studies in Berkeley, Calif.: "Those who hold myth-convictions are better prepared to face death with equanimity. It is more difficult for the rationalist to contemplate death." German Protestant Theologian Dorothee Solle believes that "emphasis on this world means an intensification of the death experience. The new theology says that life is definite, not indefinite, that our chances are limited...
...large is Luther that every age has been able to find in him a religious hero to its own liking. To the Enlightenment he was above all an individualist and rationalist who sneered at superstition and fought totalitarianism. The Romantic era saw Luther as a German nationalist, the rebel against Roman imperialism. Turn-of-the-century Christian liberals pictured him as a primitive reductionist who tried to return the church to its apostolic simplicity. Since Luther's f ears,, foibles and physical ailments are amply documented-notably in his own writings, which fill some 100 volumes in the authoritative...
...conflict since opera was born. On the one side, there is the opera fan-emotional, sensitive, not only susceptible to the soothing charms of music but imaginative enough to see that, give or take a few embellishments, opera is life. On the other, there is the opera foe-the rationalist skeptic who thinks that life and art are subject to reason...
...Wine is an immature sensationalist, and the schedule of his weekly sermons has been struck from the local Jewish News. Pittsburgh's Rabbi Solomon Freehof, one of Reform Judaism's leading theologians, suggests that Wine ought to drop all pretenses entirely and call his Birmingham Temple the "rationalist association of Detroit." "When he uses the title rabbi and the term synagogue or temple," says Rabbi Freehof, "he is luring in new members by false and heartless pretenses...