Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contended that the current concern over the question "Is God Dead?" is the result of conflict among clergymen as to the role of religion in modern life...
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) arrives in Cambridge today to deliver three lectures on "Religion and Politics...
Students cannot major in religion and must take the subject as an elective-but the courses are highly popular nonetheless. The Stanford emphasis is strongly contemporary. Brown teaches one course on modern theology on the work of Barth, Tillich, Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr, another on Christian ethics that ranges from sexual problems-to political responsibility. Novak traces the development of 20th century Catholic theology and literature, has gained his greatest student following with a course that explores the practical consequences of commitments to faith and atheism...
Liturgy from Africa. This fall, the revival of religion as a discipline has been supplemented by the spiritual experiments at Memorial Church fostered by Dean Napier, a Congregational minister who formerly taught Old Testament at Yale. He has inaugurated an ecumenical Sunday Communion based on an Anglican liturgy developed for use in Africa that provides for considerable congregational participation. Utilizing student creativity, Napier presents jazz and folk-song services with banjo and guitar accompaniment, for Christmas will put on a medieval Christian drama performed by freshmen students in the English department...
Although Napier's chapel and academic religion at Stanford are independent, the revitalization of both has begun to have a synergistic effect: students of religion have felt compelled to express their new concern about faith in worship, while students inspired by worship plan to enroll in religion courses. Concludes Brown: "Faith and learning can exist in partnership with each other: they need not be antithetical...