Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for your story on the work of my colleague, Professor Altizer. It is an accurate introduction. But no brief statement can convey the scope of reading, reflection and real involvement in our world that have provided the substance of Professor Altizer's views. His work is, of course, still in progress. But his perceptive judgments and forthright claims have helped to distinguish what is weak and pointless in theology, and to discern a new form of the Christian heritage adequate for the present. His work has already been of the very greatest importance to many...
...recommended charities are small but their intensive scope only makes each student's contribution more significant: a $3000 project to build a school for "grade school dropouts" in Kentucky; a program supporting university correspondence courses for Negroes and Colored in South Africa; The Southern Courier, established by Harvard students to provide accurate reporting of civil rights news in the South; Miles College, one of Alabama's few Negro colleges; an American Friends Service Committee project to help Vietnamese refugees; and Phillips Brooks House. The emphasis this year is on providing "seed money" to help and encourage worthwhile but struggling ventures...
...SCOPE (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m. in New York; nationally, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Jomo Kenyatta: Burning Spear Turns Builder." A visit with Kenya's leader...
Thus, at long last, Congress wound up a first session whose record of legislative achievement (see box) was unsurpassed in bulk or scope by that of any other Congress in U.S. history -even by Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated 73rd. In a heartfelt thank-you message to his congressional lieutenants, Lyndon Johnson predicted: "What you have done will find a shining residence in the history books...
...proclamation of God's death is only the negative starting point of this new radical theology. In various ways, these theologians are trying to redefine other tenets of a Christianity without a Creator. Something of the variety and scope of the movement can be judged from the work of the four best-known advocates of a death-of-God theology: Altizer, Paul van Buren of Temple University, William Hamilton of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, and Gabriel Vahanian of Syracuse University...