Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Family Man. Sparkplug of this international campaign is a Jesuit theologian, Francis Lad Filas, 46, chairman of the theology department at Chicago's Loyola University. One day in 1937, Filas stumbled on an ancient German treatise on St. Joseph, and was attracted to the Virgin's husband as "an obscure underdog who didn't deserve the treatment he had received in history." In 1944 he published his first book on Joseph, The Man Nearest to Christ, and books, pamphlets, lectures and magazine articles on the saint have been pouring out of his typewriter ever since. Jesuit Filas...
...think this piece is the best of the lot. Leifer rightly ranks Gordon with Buber and Rosenzweig as the most influential of this century's unorthodox European Jews, and he insists persuasively that Gordon is not so much the famed ideologue of Zionism's "religion of labor," as a theologian who fused strains of European romanticism into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense of the limits of rationality, and a romantic belief in the necessity for personal experience as the source of religion. It is also easy to see that his anti-urban theorizing...
Protestants may be galled by the pretensions of the Roman Catholic Church, but they can ill afford to sneer at Catholic social doctrine, because it is vastly superior to Protestant vacillation between pragmatism and perfectionism. So holds Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, whose perennial willingness to stick out his political and theological neck is one of Protestantism's glories. To make his point, he analyzes Pope John's recent encyclical, Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher), which broadened Catholicism's alignment on the side of the welfare state and endorsed a measure of "socialization" (TIME, July...
...Sammlung would have Protestantism place more emphasis on saints and sanctity, especially on the Virgin Mary. It would underscore the sacramental character of German Protestant serv ices. "Luther never intended to bereave the church of her mystery," says one Sammlung theologian...
...Theologian Max Lackmann, one of Die Sammlung's most articulate members, summed up the movement for a visitor last week: "We want to say yes to tradition but no to traditionalism, yes to the office of the Pope but no to papism, yes to the right of the church but no to legalism, yes to the praised mother of the Lord but no to Marianism, yes to the spiritual center of Rome but no to centralism and Romanism...