Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understood as supporting the Biblical view of faith resulting in service and concern rather than service as an effort to attain faith. You also accurately presented Luther as a man truly ecumenical, not wishing to divide the church or to separate himself from it but simply to reform it. The basic error of modern theology-which is frequently difficult to separate from politics, philosophies and other areas of thought-is in attempts by churches at nonecumenical uniting, not on the basis of faith or of adjusted differences based on faith but because of need. We could learn from Luther...
...cannot become isolated from Rome," says Schillebeeckx, "but we can tell Rome what we think." To prevent an open breach, the Dutch church depends strongly on the diplomatic skill of its hierarchy, headed by Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht. Although the bishops have publicly warned against excesses of reform, they have, in effect, tolerated the radical questioning of doctrine that is going on in The Netherlands, and have backed many priests whose views have got them in Dutch with Rome. "It is always a good thing for the church to move forward," says Alfrink. "It is not good...
...experimenter, innovator and catalyst, doing what others are not equipped to do. Foundations, says Bundy, should "search for leverage in which national resources can be more effectively put to work on a problem." One new area of experimentation under study at Ford is a long-term program to reform graduate education, involving the ten "pacesetting" universities that award the majority of Ph.D.s in the social sciences and humanities...
...committee, whose new chairman is Jay B. Breese '69, hopes to get endorsements of its letter from the Massachusetts Prisons Association, a group which lobbies in the statehouse for prison reform, and from the Rehabilitation Services Committee, a group of businessmen who help find jobs for parolees. The committee hopes to send the letter to Volpe next week...
...cows of English life and government that fed Dizzy's antagonists. Yet, his opportunism and imagination created an impressive political legacy. It was he who first formulated the now-obvious parliamentary principle that "it is the duty of the opposition to oppose." It was Dizzy who wrought the Reform Bill of 1867, giving the vote for the first time to large numbers of the emerging industrial class in Britain. He shaped and dramatized the Tory sense of larger world responsibilities. With Bismarck at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, he headed off a potential clash among European powers...