Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Courtney Murray, L.H.D., Jesuit theologian for showing knowledge without compromising the beliefs which he holds sacred...
...fraternity is an outgrowth of an interfaith meeting in Paris last spring, organized by Jesuit Theologian Jean Daniélou and Father Michel Hayek of Lebanon, lecturer on Christian-Moslem relations. To their delight, both Moslems and Jews accepted invitations to attend. "The discussion was often hot," Hayek recalls, "but no one threw any chairs." A series of subsequent discussions proved so rewarding that three months ago the leaders formed the Fraternity of Abraham-named after the Old Testament prophet revered by all three religions...
...Instructions. Conversely, heaven is now defined as the triumph of self-giving-not as some celestial leisure village. "Heaven is cordial, honest, loving relationships," says Gordon's Kalland. According to Macquarrie, "Heaven is simply the goal of human existence." Such a view parallels that of Swiss Theologian Karl Barth, who wrote that "resurrection means not the continuation of life, but life's completion. The Christian hope does not lead us away from this life...
...Terrestrial Messianism." Whatever those instructions, theologians retain faith in a posthumous identity. Insists Catholic Scholar Riga: "An afterlife is simply basic to Christianity. Without it what would you have but a terrestrial messianism interested only in building up the city of man? That surely is not all there is to religion." Declares Stanford's Robert McAfee Brown: "If God is a God of love, if he is ultimate, that which he loves and sustains he will not simply discard." Jesuit Sociologist-Theologian Paul Hilsdale of California's Loyola University believes that the afterlife, whatever its form, must somehow...
...make it harder for some people to face death. Says the Rev. Kevin Wall, prior of the Dominican House of Studies in Berkeley, Calif.: "Those who hold myth-convictions are better prepared to face death with equanimity. It is more difficult for the rationalist to contemplate death." German Protestant Theologian Dorothee Solle believes that "emphasis on this world means an intensification of the death experience. The new theology says that life is definite, not indefinite, that our chances are limited...