Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church in the Power of the Spirit, by the Rev. Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row; 401 pages; $15). Germany is to Christian theology what France is to wine, and Moltmann, 51, a colleague of Küng's at the University of Tubingen, is one of its most eminent Protestant thinkers. Moltmann's first major work, The Theology of Hope (1964), based on the somewhat neglected promise of Christ's coming reign in a kingdom of righteousness, was a ringing call to optimism and activism during the days of "God is dead" theology. Then...
...Churches Should Not Pay Taxes, by the Rev. Dean M. Kelley (Harper & Row; 151 pages; $6.95). Kelley, religious-liberty director of the National Council of Churches, takes up arms against a recent trend toward taxing religious institutions (hard-pressed New York City, for example, has withdrawn exemption from the property of the American Bible Society). Kelley argues that churches should be protected as the only institutions that provide meaning in people's lives on a massive scale, a function of great social value even to nonbelievers. He points out that tax-exempt church properties are not a big cause...
...passage of the amendment. Two-thirds of the states that have refused to ratify the ERA are in the South-which still proclaims the romantic ideal of womanhood, and where resentment continues to fester over civil rights laws and constitutional amendments passed almost a century ago. As the Rev. Bob Clark, a fundamentalist pastor, thundered during a Florida radio talk show: "Section 2 [of the ERA] says the Congress shall have the power to enforce the article. There's Big Daddy Fed again... When you start getting the Federal Government in on it, that's where the trouble...
...Rev Up. Businessmen also suspect that they will be asked to bear the chief burden of Carter's anti-inflation policies, due out this week (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and his energy conservation program, which is expected to be announced next week. These fears are partly responsible for tumbling stock prices and the sluggishness of capital investment. The businessmen want Carter to press Congress harder for an increase in the investment-tax credit to rev up the economy...
...dating the Bible [March 21] reminded me of a story that made the seminary rounds. It seems that the scholars were confused from reading all the latest theories, so one suggested that they read the Bible to see if it might throw some light on the commentaries. (The Rev...