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Soon after John Paul II was elected Pope in 1978, he initiated a policy designed to rein in his church's most visible theological dissidents. Among the prime targets: Hans Kung of West Germany and Edward Schillebeeckx of the Netherlands, who had challenged traditional dogmas about both the nature of Christ and the authority of bishops and priests. Kung was forbidden to teach as a Roman Catholic theologian, and Schillebeeckx's writings are still being examined. Last week the Vatican announced a disciplinary step against another scholar, Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, 46, Brazil's leading advocate of liberation theology...
DIED. Philip Scharper, 65, editor in chief at Sheed & Ward (1957-69), then co-founder of Orbis Books, who brought U.S. readers the works of influential European and Third World Roman Catholic thinkers, including Hans Kung, Karl Rahner, Edward Schillebeeckx, Liberation Theologians Leonardo Boff and Gustavo Gutierrez; following a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
...meet on Sept. 7 at the Vatican, when Ratzinger's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will begin an interrogation of Boff to decide whether retractions should be required. It will be the first notable face-to-face grilling of a scholar since left-wing Father Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands was summoned to Rome in 1979. The Boff case could prove far more important, since a movement is on trial as much...
...example, the brothers examined the need to make the prayer more their own. What had been an hour and a half of psalm singing and Scripture reading is now a third as long and much more contemporary. Among the readings are excerpts from modern theologians like Edward Schillebeeckx and Henri Nouwen and from Third World proponents of "liberation theology," who consider social and economic activism central to the church's mission...
...which "in no way [means] giving up or in any way diminishing the treasures of divine truth that the church has constantly confessed and taught." John Paul, with his well-publicized disciplinary policies regarding two progressive theologians, West Germany's Hans Küng and the Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of The Netherlands, has probably slowed down the forward momentum, in the eyes of non-Catholic liberals, at least. Says W.A. Visser 't Hooft, 81, co-founder of the World Council of Churches: "Let's face it. The Pope remains a theological conservative. There are great differences between...