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...revolution in the relationship of religion to Western civilization. The churchgoer could once take comfort in the fact that he belonged to what was essentially a Christian society, in which the existence of an omnipotent God was the focus of ultimate meaning. No such security exists today, in a secular-minded culture that suggests the eclipse rather than the presence...
Since World War II, the number of non-Jewish secular campuses in the U.S. offering Judaic studies has jumped from seven to more than 100, and the growing demand has underlined the shortage of first-rate Jewish scholars. Schools are competing by upping salaries and fringe benefits. The migration of Jewish professors amounts to a new Diaspora, and even administrators of some Jewish schools are having difficulty in staffing their classrooms...
Seminarians and secular students alike find appeal in what Rylaarsdam calls "the worldliness of the Jewish Rylaarsdam also attributes in creased interest in Judaism to widely read Jewish novelists like Saul Bellow, whose moral in sights are "more attuned to this technological age" than many a Christian sermon...
...Baptist minister and dean of Harvard Divinity School since 1959; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Miller believed that "religion which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit...
Cooke, a conservative in theology, declares himself a progressive in secular matters. At his first press conference last week, he seemed to back quick implementation of the presidential riot commission's report. Most questions he fielded nimbly: reminded of Spellman's call for "victory" in Viet Nam, Cooke replied: "I think what the Cardinal meant by victory was a quick peace." Chances are the new archbishop will become a cardinal at the next consistory, which will probably make him the second youngest member of the present Sacred College (Alfred Cardinal Bengsch of Berlin is five months younger...