Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. The Rev. Dr. H. (for Helmut) Richard Niebuhr, 67, Sterling Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School, Missouri-born younger brother of Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr. 70, a theologian who sought to rewarm Christian symbols long chilled into cliches, who once observed: "In the West the most sensitive, if not yet most, men are living in a great religious void; their half-gods are gone and the gods have not yet arrived"; of a heart attack; in Greenfield, Mass...
...cocksure as they used to be," says Botanist Edmund Sinnott. former dean of Yale's Graduate School. They have come to show greater respect for the kind of questions that religion-although not necessarily the Christian church-asks. "Most of the scientists I know," says Boston University Theologian Edwin Booth, "believe in the immanent principle of life in the organic universe. If they are religious, they call it God. If they are not religious, they have awe and reverence for this principle. But it isn't retired, nor is it personal. It is greater than personal...
Gustave Weigel, S.J., theologian...
...describe this great man." writes Nigg. "we would have to call him the aurora borealis shining in the night of early medieval Christendom." Arms, Not Argument. In dealing with its heretics. Nigg argues, the church too often substituted force of arms for force of argument. Perhaps the first theologian to defend strong-arm methods was St. Augustine. In one debate with some 5th century heretics, he lost his temper, abandoned his arguments from Scripture and announced the terrible principle: Cogite intrare-compel them to enter. It was a fateful surrender to weakness that later Christians found most useful...
...Order; now we know that Germany is one of these things." Since every event is unique, nobody is permanently good or evil in a Borges story. A traitor at one time becomes a hero at another, a friend an enemy. Reputations are strangely inverted. In one story, a theologian reasons that Judas was actually God, because God would have chosen the "vilest destiny of all" to redeem mankind. In another, the fearsome Minotaur of Greek legend turns out to be sad at being hated by men, and longs for death at the hands of Theseus...