Word: samaritanism
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...screams for help when she was fatally stabbed in the Kew Gardens section of New York City one night last year? At the University of Chicago Law School last week, scholars from four countries gravely pondered such puzzles of public apathy at a symposium on "The Good Samaritan...
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...help his boys discover the real meaning of the Gospel message, Burke has encouraged them to rephrase it in their own terms. The Good Samaritan thus became the "cool square" who helped a mugged victim after a "hood" and a "squeak" (not so cool as a hood) had passed him by. "You don't have to be a 'square' to show love and to be sorry for someone and to help a guy," the parable ends. "But get with it, man-this is what God wants you to do." In the Christmas story, Jesus is born...
There is nothing unBiblical in this conception of the Christ. After all, notes Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty, "when they asked Jesus what it was all about, he told the story of the Good Samaritan." St. Paul informed the church of Philippi that "Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant." According to Matthew, Jesus warned his disciples: "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve." And he wished that the church follow...