Word: reinterprets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believes that priests have the opportunity to reinterpret in a more liberal way papal pronouncements on such issues as birth control...
Despite Begin's public intransigence, there seemed to be some slight give in his position in private. In a recent meeting with Vance in Washington, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan expressed a willingness to "reinterpret" Begin's earlier proposal for Palestinian self-rule under Israeli auspices on the West Bank...
...Word (Westminster Press; $3.95). It argues that the Bible's divine message is encrusted with nondivine notions of male dominance that the biblical authors drew from their ancient cultures, not from religious inspiration. The 96-page booklet urges today's readers, clergy as well as laity, to reinterpret the Bible accordingly...
They had a lot to discuss. Rosovsky, in his letter, set as his objective nothing less than "an effort to reinterpret (and make more explicit) for our own time the broad educational principles that have guided us in the past." Citing the increased size and specialization of the Faculty as well as the changing needs of a more diverse student body. Rosovsky wrote of the need for a "renewed vitality and distinction in the intellectual atmosphere of the College...
...myth. He notes in a chapter on religion and sex, that "sexuality is by its very nature sacred and by its very nature religious." He concludes by calling upon the Church neither to dabble in "social relevance" nor to keep out of earthly affairs entirely. He would have her reinterpret her myths in order to reassert the importance of the transcendent. The Church, he says, is the only institution in a position to alleviate the despair which he sees all around us, since only religious myths can heal the rift between technology and nature...