Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close friend, John N. D. Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, said yesterday that Munn was "both a serious and jolly theologian in this course. He gave himself freely to the welfare of the College and all its inhabitants--young and old--and was a great stabilizing influence during the difficult war years...
Viable Sperm. Protestant theologians, even as they continue to affirm the essential sacredness of life, argue that the inflexible Catholic opposition is bad morality based on bad biology. Says Episcopal Priest Lester Kinsolving of San Francisco: "The contention that the fetus, being viable, is to be regarded as a human being is not only specious but begs the consideration that the sperm is also viable." Not even the most austere Catholic moralist, he points out, suggests that the loss of semen through nocturnal emission represents the taking of life. German Protestant Theologian Joachim Beckmann concedes that the embryo is alive...
...Alden's goal to "shape a university that's in touch with the real world." He has brought an impressive list of guest speakers to the campus, ranging from President Johnson, who spoke there on a war-on-poverty tour in May 1964, to the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich. The university's select "Ohio Fellows," 30 members of each class chosen for their potential as future public leaders, have been able to quiz such officials as Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Alden has also defended the right...
...this admiring spiritual biography, Theologian Van Dusen argues that there is no incongruity between diplomat and diarist. After studying Hammarskjold's correspondence and talking with scores of his friends and associates, Presbyterian Van Dusen has been able to relate the entries of Markings to the changing moods of the statesman's life...
...most powerful nation in the world, has never systematically thought out the legitimate uses and the inevitable limitations of power. The answer cannot lie either in mere swagger or in mere compassion. The age-old problem of reconciling love and justice is cogently analyzed by German Catholic Theologian Karl Rahner, who feels that "it is impossible to make our existence a paroxysm of nonviolence." The Christian "should always first opt for the path of love; yet as long as this world exists, a rational, hard, even violent striving for justice may well be the secular personification of love." Love...