Word: sittler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cosmic Christology. Perhaps the most original and challenging address given at the Assembly came from Lutheran Dr. Joseph Sittler, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Before he left for New Delhi, Sittler told a Chicago friend what he had in mind. Christians, he felt, were too much inclined to dismiss Communist ideology as "barren materialism." But Communism "succeeds because it is not materialism. All things are given value and purpose and drawn into a huge vision for the totality of man and the world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than...