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...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...
...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...
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...
...past disappointments, as a conditioned reflex. When Christianity is offered as "a huge and rosy simplicity, gallant promises either crumple up in the hard clutch of need, or become mockingly simple symbols of childhood as they retreat before the dawning ambiguity in the moral intelligence." The Christian story, said Sittler, has "a tough, penetrating, hard purpose whose theatre is the dark dreads, tormenting anxieties, and constructive demands of life...
Finally, negation may be the "protest of affirmative nature against what seems to be the sterilizing claims of grace." But all that man can know of God is the way in which he cannot know God," Sittler explained, and therefore negation "brings to decisive clarity precisely what is involved in the affirmation of Grace and Nature." Faith has its peculiar courage in virtue of the persistent negation that accompanies it; faith is the ultimate risk, not a freedom from risk...