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...thinking about ethnics more, but is it because they are becoming more group conscious, and acting more like groups, or are we simply tuning in to a fact of social life that has been around since the Pharaohs chased the Jews across the pages of the Old Testament? According to Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, who in Ethnicity: Theory and Experience have collected sixteen essays by different authors on various aspects (both theoretical and empirical) of ethnicity, the world is becoming more ethnic. They claim an increasing number of people in different countries and in different situations are becoming...
...building, which you can see out the window near the Children's Hospital, between Francis and Binney Streets in Boston. Frei is director of the Sidney Farber Center for the study of cancer, which will take up the new and angular black building that is a grim but gleaming testament to the gravity of the disease it was built...
...Testament, Paul's views on sexuality were colored by his shock at the Greco-Roman world at the time. The homosexuality of Paul's era, says Norman Pittenger of England's Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity, "was often just licentious, not in any way a noble and moral affair as it had been among many of the Greeks of, say, Plato's time." Some argue that today's homosexuals, if not noble, are often truly loving. The British Society of Friends in its book Toward a Quaker View on Sex maintains that "it is the nature and quality...
While most scholars manage to resist the notion that Paul might have applauded selfless homosexual relationships, it seems that neither the Old Testament writers nor Paul had any conception that homosexuality might be a permanent psychic condition in an individual. The Dutch Catechism, a product of liberal Roman Catholicism with the imprimatur of Holland's Primate, says that "the very sharp strictures of Scripture must be read in their context" as a denunciation of a fashion that was spreading to many who were "quite capable of normal sexual sentiments." The catechism suggests that a homosexual not capable of "normal" sexual...
...curious nature of the theology. The participants would defend an argument with a scriptural passage from Jeremiah or a verse from Luke, then, just as earnestly, cite Marx in condemning economic injustice. The theology of liberation in fact combines Marxist economic analysis with the teachings of the Old Testament prophets and the commands of the Christian gospel to fashion a demanding spiritual ethic: that it is every Christian's duty to fight "oppression," especially industrial capitalism, which is viewed by this theology as the central evil today...