Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decrease only if the cops and courts get tougher. Admittedly, fear of dire punishment is often an effective deterrent. So, for that matter, is torture. But the reformers argue that the hope of an orderly society lies in making "equal and exact justice" more equal and more exact. As Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has observed, "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
...Prophecy. Pius' encyclical Casti Connubii may have been the apogee of the church's denunciation of birth control. Five years after it appeared, German Theologian Herbert Doms was tentatively proposing a personalist theology of marriage that gave primacy to love rather than childbearing. Although the Vatican at the time criticized Doms's theories, papal statements on marriage were soon to shift emphasis. Even as he denounced "the pill" as immoral in 1951, Pope Pius XII strongly affirmed the spiritual values of sex. "The conjugal act," he said, "is a personal action, which, according to the word...
...York Conference of the Methodist Church in Bridgeport last month, Tenor Saxophonist Ed Summerlin, with sextet and chorus, presented the first performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when he poured out his grief...
Whitener certainly represented the vast majority, yet under the standards of a democracy, which hold that all men are equal, his argument was open to question. As Catholic Theologian the Rev. John Courtney Murray has said: "Human life has a basic sacredness whether a person holds high office or whether he is among the humblest." Only recently, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, reluctantly signing a bill abolishing the death penalty in New York except in the case of cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or other inmates, asked pointedly: "If the proponents admit that...
Ecumenical Consequences. While this new way of eucharistic thinking is intended primarily to express the faith of the church in modern terms, the theologians admit that their approach has ecumenical consequences. Capuchin Smits, whose own thinking owes much to Protestant Theologian F. J. Leenhardt, points out that "the possibility is open for a new sort of ecumenical conversation with Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans and Orthodox...