Word: theologian
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Died. Karl Barth, 82, eminent Swiss theologian and one of the most influential religious thinkers of the century (see RELIGION...
...Protestant theologian who labored quietly in university towns of Switzerland and Germany for half a century. The other was a Roman Catholic monk who worked hermitlike on his writings in the hills of central Kentucky. But while Karl Barth gave his life to scholarship and Thomas Merton to contemplation, both men were Christian activists who found in the Word a command to do. Barth stood courageously against Nazi totalitarianism. Merton drove himself endlessly in championing the cause of the poor and oppressed. On their journey toward their deaths last week, each brought to his age, and to his fellow...
...what's this about traditional Catholics being "peasants" and uneducated? I happen to be a college graduate, but I'd rather be a humble peasant than a vainglorious "do-it-yourself" theologian...
...tterdammerung. Still, anyone who has lived through what Theologian Martin Marty calls "this year of impersonal and brutalizing chaos" knows that there are reasons enough too for disillusionment. Beyond the assassinations, beyond even the riots and racial divisions, there is a vague anxiety that the machine of the 20th century is beginning to run out of control...
...regular guy by hobnobbing with the ragazzi of Rome, exhibits his ecumenism by reciting the Shema Yisrael in the house of a dying Jew, and outdoes Dear Abby by cementing a broken marriage. His ex-cathedra advice: Love one another. In his spare time, Pope Kiril befriends a radical theologian, Father Telemond (Oskar Werner), soothes the internecine squabbles of the Roman Curia, and ends the possibility of World War III by giving away the wealth of the church to the starving Chinese...