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Fallible Infallibility. Author Küng admits that his church has been guilty of "a spurious, self-righteous 'splendid isolation' " from the intellectual currents of the age. He expresses sympathy for many modern men who are exasperated by "the lack of any openness among the Church's leaders towards new problems and insights, new forms and values." In displaying her claim of infallibility before the world, for example, the Catholic Church has refused to admit, "in all honesty and humility, that errors had occurred even in cases where she was perfectly capable of error and in simple...
Glimmers of Hope. Though many Western observers expected that Khrushchev would use the Supreme Soviet session as a platform for tirades against U.S. nuclear tests, Moscow's announcement that it will follow the U.S. series with more weapons tests of its own left little grounds for righteous indignation. Indeed, Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko spoke in relatively muted tones; in almost identical words, both allowed that U.S.-Soviet talks on Berlin yielded "glimmers of hope." The published text of Khrushchev's recent three-hour interview with Look Publisher Gardner Cowles showed that the Soviet Premier has finally...
...perhaps too easy to adopt a self-righteous position and condemn others, and in Iran, the land of classic dualism, one's own position may be exalted as shining light while the opposing view is evil darkness. Neither Dr. Mossadegh nor the Shah should be condemned as archfiends, nor should one or the other be exalted as a paragon of virtue. Criticism is certainly desirable but it should be constructive, and calling names serves little purpose. I hope Iranian students in this country, who hold many views, will avoid extremist positions, and rather study and work for the welfare...
...forbidding size, a joyful and optimistic work. By Christ's reconciling act. Barth says, the Kingdom of God has already been established, although it is held out to man as a promise rather than a visible reality. Man, in Luther's phrase, is simultinstus accpeccator (simultaneously righteous and sinful). He is still besieged by evil and capable of sin himself, but he also knows that Christ has already conquered the forces of darkness, and that in St. Paul's words "death hath no more dominion over him." Says Yale's Theologian Frei: "What emerges from
...make sure he does well in his job. He does very well indeed. Before the first reel runs out, he seems certain to become chairman of the sociology department. At that point, unfortunately for him, the scientific snob discovers what his wife has been up to, and with self-righteous rationality he destroys her "protections." They burn with a sinister light...