Word: theologian
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...part of the language, and the new burdens on the individual are discussed and decried on all sides. Not only by angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become
...Boston College does not happen to be Kennedy's alma mater, it does boast some distinguished alumni: Cardinals William O'Connell and Richard Gushing, Massachusetts Governors Maurice Tobin and Charles Hurley, Theologian John Courtney Murray. Yet for years many an old grad preferred to forget that he ever went to Boston College. Socially it was an Irish C.C.N.Y. without that school's academic status. And then during World War II enrollment plummeted clear down...
...Jesuits; the faculty has 143 of them, the world's biggest Jesuit teaching community. But the total faculty of 750 is full of non-Catholics, and free expression is the B.C. fashion. Washington's Catholic University recently banned a proposed speech by Germany's liberal Theologian Hans Kiing; Boston College warmly welcomed him, having invited Kiing to the U.S. in the first place...
Borrowed Blend. Honest to God is a blend of ideas borrowed from some of the century's most provocative Protestant theologians. Like German Biblical Critic Rudolf Bultmann, Robinson regards the virgin birth and the heaven-above-hell-below framework of Scripture as religious myths; he argues that the essential Gospel message must be "demythologized" by liberating it from antiquated supernatural language. Rejecting the Biblical image of a transcendent God in the sky, Robinson suggests that Christians think of God the way Existentialist Theologian Paul Tillich does: as the "ground of all being...
...professor of sacred Scripture, was ousted last year "for reasons of health" despite an 18-2 vote of protest by the faculty of sacred theology. Rumored reason: Siegman's probing scholarship irked Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the apostolic delegate to the U.S., who also takes a dim view of Theologian Kung...