Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western society is the intellectual prestige of Catholicism lower than in the country where, in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful," wrote Historian D. W. Brogan. "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship is," said Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel of Maryland's Woodstock College. And the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, Hesburgh's predecessor at Notre Dame, asked sorrowfully, "Where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
...dogma of papal infallibility is a logical extension of the church's God-given duty to protect the teaching of Christ from error. To Protestants, infallibility is an unwarranted assumption of power by the Bishop of Rome, and a serious bar to Christian reunion. Last week a Protestant theologian suggested that non-Catholics ought to take another look at the doctrine...
...them before God. Protestants generally reject the idea of the Immaculate Conception and of the Assumption into heaven-both doctrines that have been made articles of faith for Catholics within the last 107 years. Last week, at the annual convention of the Mariological Society of America, a leading Catholic theologian warned that it was time for his church to give a clearer explanation of how such beliefs derive from the revelation...
Bone in the Throat. In these ecumenical times, argued Father Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., professor of patristic theology at the Jesuit Seminary in Woodstock, Md., theologians are obliged to look harder at the issues that divide Christians. "For the bone that sticks in the Protestant throat," he said, "is Scripture v. dogma, the original message of salvation from the mouth of God and the promulgation of infallible propositions. It is this passage, this seemingly lyric leap from Scripture to dogma, and from dogma to dogma, that scandalizes the Protestant theologian...
...Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has had a vast influence on Visser 't Hooft. "Barth felt that the church had almost lost its soul in making adjustments to historical trends," he says. "He called the church again to be itself." He remembers that the "unofficial slogan" of the men who met at Edinburgh and Oxford in 1937 to launch the ecumenical movement was "Let the Church be the Church." And this, he says, "did not mean that the church should run away from the world. It did mean that the church was not merely an echo of trends...