Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without really knowing why, many of the Protestant faithful like to think of Paul Tillich as the theologian who has rediscovered the intellectual respectability of Christianity. This was certainly no easy job. After reading hundreds of philosophers and writers, Tillich still had to wrestle with a number of metaphysical titans--among them, Being, Non-Being, Being-Itself, The Demoniac, and the Eternal Kaires. In the end, these cosmic structures, along with his analysis of what man and history really are, come together "within a system that comprise the whole of man's interpretation of himself and the meaning...
...stepping down from his position as General Secretary "within a year or two." The ecumenical magazine pondered the chances of replacing Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft and concluded that it was not possible. For Dr. Visser't Hooft is at once a kind of charismatic leader-prophet, an astute theologian, and a gifted diplomat. His successor may be one or some of these things, but it is unlikely that he will be them...
...that the churches must change their fundamental tenets; rather, he believes their truth must be proclaimed anew by a church "united in a common divine calling." He recalls that the theme of the Oxford conferences in 1937 was, "Let the Church be the Church." And he admires the German theologian Karl Barth because "Barth felt the church had lost its soul in making adjustments to historical trends. He called the church to be itself again," says Visser't Hooft...
That word covers the question of whether the church as a whole is governed by the Pope and Curia alone, or whether the college of bishops shares in this authority, and if so to what extent. Council progressives believed, as one American theologian put it, that "this council was called to abolish papolatry." But to council conservatives, collegiality means a sharp loss of power. Archbishop Dino Staffa, an official of the Roman Curia, contended that "supreme power over the entire flock of the faithful was entrusted to Peter and Peter alone." The implication is that such power was also entrusted...
Instead of the emergence of Christianity, younger theologians nowadays speak knowingly of The Event. Sin, in the person-centered approach of existential theology, becomes estrangement. And no theologian today worth his doctorate would dare talk of preaching or teaching: the fashionable forms are kerygma and didache...