Word: sittler
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Today Chicago's student enrollment of 375 is an ecumenical admixture of Protestants (including 55 Methodists, 54 Lutherans, 40 Baptists, 31 Presbyterians, 25 Episcopalians) seasoned with 17 Roman Catholics, four Jews and a solitary Buddhist. Characteristically, they put their theological studies ahead of formal religion; Professor Joseph Sittler mournfully notes that there are seldom more than 20 to 30 students at midweek services in Bond Chapel...
...genius of this place," says Scott, "is the concept of theology as an interdisciplinary undertaking." >JOSEPH SITTLER, 61, Lutheran, professor of theology. The leading campus spokesman for ecumenism, he combined parish ministry with teaching at a Lutheran seminary before coming to Chicago. He says Chicago "is not protecting any theological tradition. The tradition here is hard-nosed research...
...Elect Instrument." Protestant laymen still generally feel this way but, says Lutheran Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "there is new thinking on the part of Protestant scholars about Mariology." In the latest issue of The Journal of Religion, Princeton's W. Paul Jones, a Methodist, points out that "Mary stands at the very inception of Christian revelation as sign and representative of the human context in which the Christ-event is received, then and now." In the interdenominational Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Harvard's Heiko Oberman, a Dutch Reformed pastor, warns Protestants against...
...Catholic scholars point out that any Protestant Mariology would have to be subordinated to the doctrine of Christ and closely tied to the New Testament witness. Thus the emerging Protestant interpretation of Mary is considerably more modest than her exalted place in Catholic teaching. Nonetheless, says Chicago's Sittler, Mary may be "a center from which we could penetrate one another's thoughts," since Rome is in the midst of a Marian reconsideration all its own. Recent Popes have warned against excessive devotion to Mary that obscures the uniqueness of Christ, and many Catholic thinkers are earnestly seeking...
...first Catholic to address the Minnesota State Pastors' Conference. His major point: a fresh study of Luther's writing might show that Catholics and Protestants are no longer irrevocably split on the central dogmatic issue of the Reformation, the question of justification. Fortnight ago, Lutheran Theologian Joseph Sittler, of the University of Chicago Divinity School, spoke to 800 Catholics under the auspices of the Jesuits' Loyola University, cited the "terrible urgency" of church reunion...