Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Jerald Carl Brauer is only 33, and the faculty he heads includes seven members under 40 and 13 more under 50. Crop-headed Jerry Brauer, who looks more like a football coach than a theologian, intends to make teamwork the watchword among his young faculty. "The age of theological geniuses is past for a while," says the Rev. Dr. Brauer. "People like Niebuhr and Tillich do not appear in every generation, and no longer is any theological school going to have its predominance through giant men who tower over the others . . . There may be another Reinie Niebuhr hiding under...
...Divinity School (Baptist), the Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregationalist), the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian), and the Disciples of Christ Divinity House. The resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy...
...Flying Theologian. Dean Brauer's specialty: Puritanism, on which he is currently writing two books. A Midwesterner (from Fond du Lac, Wis.), Brauer studied at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis, took his Ph.D. in church history at F.T.F.. then spent two years at Union Theological teaching and serving as assistant to Theologian Paul Tillich. Puritan Expert Brauer sees a new kind of theological liberalism emerging at F.T.F. "It still asserts the creativeness and potentiality of the human spirit." he says, "but it is also much more aware of the limitations of the human spirit-for example...
...spreading controversy looked like a "scandal" to Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, then the church's chief theologian. The rebuke which Galileo received at the hands of Bellarmine's Holy Office in 1616 (year of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes) was mild. In sum, he was ordered not to "hold or defend" the proposition that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo did not interpret this as a gag order, and over the next eight years cautiously busied himself, in letters and pamphlets, with thinly disguised proselytizing for the Copernican view...
Some previous reports had indicated that the world-famous Protestant theologian, appointed to the faculty last spring, might confine his teaching activities to the Divinity School...