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...mile-long route to the Pantheon were extinguished. One cafe attempted business as usual with gas lamps, but police entered and blew them out. The colonnaded Pantheon was also dark, but brilliant tricolor searchlights cast a V up into the sky. As a military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them in his full regalia as prefect of the district. His independent spirit soon landed him in prison. After one torture session, during which he refused to sign a document serving Nazi propaganda, he feared that he would...
...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 in his path. "I have given you an example," he told the Apostles (John 13:15) after washing their feet before the Last Supper, "that...
Serving Society. One implication of this servant Christology is that the church will also be "for others"-ministering to the world, not standing aloofly in judgment against it. "In the 21st century," says Theologian van den Heuvel, "the church should serve society, which also predetermines its form and shape. In the new world, the church should really live the contents of the Gospel, living out its messianic ministry, communicating with society, gearing itself to its needs...
Beyond that, there is no widespread agreement about how the servant church...
...Lutherans, the very notion of a servant church raises a fundamental doctrinal question: What is the place of salvation by faith in a Christianity devoted to good works? And what is to prevent a church "seeking to lose itself in the world" from becoming just another humanitarian agency? German Theologian Helmut Thielicke feels that contemporary efforts to demythologize the Gospel may produce "overintellectualized" theologies comprehensible only to doctoral students in philosophy. Other churchmen question whether the theological striptease proposed by Bishops Robinson and Pike amounts to anything more than the rediscovery of classic Unitarianism...