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...expense of unity-but the truths he stood for are essential to the Christian church: the primacy of faith and God's word, the necessity of an ecclesia semper refor-manda (ever-reforming church), and the centrality of Jesus Christ. The Lutheran heritage, sums up Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago Divinity School, is "a tradition of profound, relentless, critical Biblical studies, a theological reflection of truly catholic scope, a type of piety nurtured by liturgical continuity with the old Catholic tradition...
...accept and define civil rights as a theological problem. Although Methodist morality frowns on premarital sex, motive has dealt sensitively and sympathetically with student difficulties related to the problem. Such is the magazine's reputation for intellectual openness that theologians of the stature of Thomas Merton, Joseph Sittler and Albert Outler have frequently contributed some of their freshest thoughts to its pages, although $50 is maximum pay for an article...
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...
...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...