Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...XXIII was "servant of the servants of God" less than five years-the shortest reign since the obscure Pius VIII, who ruled for 20 ailing months after his election in 1829. But far from being the caretaker that the church expected, John created an atmosphere in which, says Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, "a lot of things came unstuck -old patterns of thought, behavior, feeling. They were not challenged or refuted, but just sort of dropped...
...courts, unfortunate as it is, can only go so far-a fact expressed last week by Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), speaking in Manhattan. "The victory of the law," said Father Murray, "only raises a further and more profound issue for the social conscience of our country. When the limits of law have been reached as they have, the whole issue, in all its subtlety of reach, is inescapably presented to the higher tribunal of conscience...
...greatest living Protestant theologian retired from his professorship at the University of Basel last year, presumably with nothing to do but listen to Mozart records and finish the 13th volume of his masterwork, Church Dogmatics. But at the age of 77, Karl Barth (TIME cover, April 20, 1962) has found himself so busy that he wonders if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval...
Barth seems to be resigned to the fact that there may be no additions to the Dogmatics. "Let people read my first twelve volumes," he says, in dry awareness that they are heavy going. He has "written more than any other contemporary theologian," and fears overdoing it: "I definitely don't wish to be another Adenauer." He is in good health, still full of sly wit and provocative opinions. A sampling of the latest Barthian views...
...THEOLOGY AND JOURNALISM: Earth recalls that 40 years ago he advised young theologians to "take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible." Newspapers, he says, are so important that "I always pray for the sick, the poor, journalists, authorities of the state and the church-in that order. Journalists form public opinion. They hold terribly important positions. Nevertheless, a theologian should never be formed by the world around him-either East or West. He should make it his vocation to show both East and West that they can live without a clash...