Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to Theologian Rudolf Bultmann ["Christianity and Myth," Sept. 24] for publicly pulling down some of our teetering tenets. Thanks for allowing to come into our minds the clean, fresh breath...
...many would not quarrel with Fischer's basic point: it is one thing for a minority to persuade readers not to read certain books, but it is quite another to in effect deprive all readers of books the minority declares unsuitable. Fischer quotes the eminent Roman Catholic moral theologian, Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., of Woodstock College, Md. "No minority group has the right to impose its own religious or moral views on other groups, through the use of methods of force, coercion or violence," says Father Murray. It is especially unwise for Catholics, he adds, "lest the Church...
What, then, is left of Christianity? The saving act of God, answers Bultmann, which is what the New Testament really represents, and for which he uses the theologian's Greek word, kerygma. The problem is to free the kerygma from its encrustation of myth so that modern man can grasp...
...most experienced Protestant collaborators with a Communist regime, Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka of Prague, called upon the World Council "to combat the petrified notions, prejudices, self-isolation and inner estrangement that prevail in both East and West." De-estrangement is already well under way: United Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry of New York announced that the Russian Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate was ready to arrange a conference some time next winter with representatives of the World Council...
Critics sometimes point to his Tragic Sense of Life as one of the works that inspired the existentialist movement in Paris after World War II. Influenced by the moral austerity of Ibsen and the mystical ruminations of Danish Theologian-Existentialist Sören Kierkegaard, the book argued the toss between faith and reason in a way that could not fail to cause offense to the Spanish hierarchy. In Unamuno's picture of man, man's worst friend was his dogma. He argued: flesh-and-blood man must assert his identity in the face of death. This seemed...