Word: religion
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Lutheran Pannenberg, 47, last week ended a 21-campus tour of the U.S., the most ambitious of his three visits to America, with a talk at Harvard on the relation between the doctrine of God's election and "civil religion." In many speeches during the tour Pannenberg attacked recent styles of Christian social activism. He insists that the church should not think of itself as an agent for curing social ills, which are not "immediately solvable" anyhow. He also has no use for those Christian activists who think that "questions of the meaning of human life...
Heftiest Work. Pannenberg's treatment of the resurrection stems not from a new orthodoxy, but from his rationalism. Religion, he says, must be studied scientifically; it is not something special that has to be protected by walls of "authority" or reliance on "faith." He spins out his intricate argument in his heftiest work to date, the 450-page Theology and the Philosophy of Science, due out in an English translation later this year...
...that the Big Five are losing status within the universities. They are, in fact, gaining it as they move from training for the ministry toward academic study about religion. This swing to "religious studies,'' the report states, is the biggest change in religious higher education since separate divinity schools arose early in the 19th century...
However, this new emphasis has greatly widened the gap between their once primary clients, the churches, and the Big Five. At one time, four-fifths of their graduates with the basic divinity degree went into church jobs or further study of religion; now less than half do. A surprising number simply drop out of organized religion-a defection that may reflect loss of faith and the shrinkage of the job market as the liberal Protestant churches continue their decline in membership. (Since 1966 the United Methodist, United Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches and the United Church of Christ have lost...
...hood who eats dinner wearing white gloves and likes to quote the great thinkers. Cassel is curious about why Carey declines to fulfill his assignment and kill Gazzara. Carey curls his lips over his gums, lets a little foam drip, and says, "Like Karl Marx said: opium is the religion of the people." From him, that is sufficient explanation. No one would dare ask further questions...