Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year behind in third grade and most are three years behind in eighth grade, civil righters say that "the schools are manufacturing retarded kids" and blame white teachers who give up too easily (only 8.3% of all New York teachers are Negro). In the typical view of the Rev. Milton Galamison, the problem is "low expectancy on the part of middle-class teachers whose concept of a human being is not met by these children...
Almost half of the magazine is taken up by two articles attempting to refute Sidney Hook's contention "that religious faith is superfluous except as supplying an emotional need and that this function hardly warrants complicating the issue with the incomprehensible concept of God." The Rev. David Burrell counters with the claim that the concept of God is inherent in any notion of morality. Michael Novak, author of the other article, claimes that religious faith does not in fact satisfy the emotional need that Hook discusses...
...REV.) RALPH WEINHOLD Milwaukee...
...takes fast footwork to keep up with the latest in theological fashions. Jargon changes, as theologians change, says the Rev. Karl Parker, executive director of the Association of Churches of Greater Houston. "It used to be 'atmosphere.' Then it became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much...
...main speaker at the CRCC rally will be the Rev. James Bevel, a member of Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference...