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...Roger Shinn, Reinhold Niebuhr professor of social ethics at New York City's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "religious wars tend to be extra furious. When people fight over territory for economic advantage, they reach the point where the battle isn't worth the cost and so compromise. When the cause is religious, compromise and conciliation seem to be evil." Possibly the transcendent nature of both religion and war encourages an especially lethal kind of fanaticism. As Shinn says, "War is one of the few occasions when people are asked to give of themselves in a cause that...
...major body of Christian teaching favors forgiveness without some concern for justice. For churchmen, as for other Americans, one of the most galling aspects of Ford's decision is that it suggests unequal justice. Ethicist Roger L. Shinn, acting president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, feels that the pardon reinforces American cynicism about equality before the law. "What bothers so many is that the demand for justice and punishment applies to the poor and the weak, and mercy applies to the powerful." Jesus, however,stressed that the more powerful a person is, the more accountable he is for wrongdoing...
...following students have won Rockefeller Fellowships: Dewey C. Hickman '73 of Quincy House and Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melinda Lius '73 of Currier House and Kettering, Ohio: Marvbeth Shinn '72-4 of North House and New York City: and Seth P. Vaxman 71 of Quincy House and west Hartford. Conn
...Ohio: Sandra J. Kopit of Currier House and Silver Spring. Md.; Patricia E. Lynch of Lowell House and West Babylon. N.Y.; Anne MacKinnon of Adams House and Louisville. Ky.; Debra L. Raskin of Eliot House and Miami. Fla.; Ernestine N. Rathborne of Lowell House and Mill Neck. N.Y.; Marybeth Shinn of North House and New York, N.Y.; Karen L. Taylor of North House and Alexandria. Va.; and. Sally E. Yard of Adams House and Trenton...
...Marybeth Shinn '72, a former CUE member, tried to promote the project last year but said yesterday that she felt the Office of Tests moved too slowly by not publishing results of the few polls conducted last Spring...