Word: theologian
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Death is a darkness upon which Christian Scripture throws surprisingly little light. The churches' dogmas and the theologians' thoughts about the nature of the soul and what happens to it after death have relatively sketchy Biblical evidence to go on. Speculation on the subject was wide open in the early centuries of Christianity, and it was the church fathers of that period who laid the foundation for later Christian thought on death. In a new book, The Shape of Death (Abingdon Press; $2.25), leading Lutheran Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan of the University of Chicago analyzes the theories of five...
With these words, Britain's eminent theologian, Congregationalist Charles H. Dodd, 76, announced last week the secret project that he has been directing for the past 13 years-The New English Bible. Its New Testament will be published on March 14, jointly by the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, in a record (for Britain) first edition of half a million copies...
...committee was set up under the chairmanship of Theologian Dodd to direct the project. The committee recruited 30 Biblical scholars who were divided into three panels-one for the New Testament, one for the Old Testament (due in 1967) and one for the Apocrypha. The scholars were backed up by a six-man committee of "literary advisers," whose names are officially secret. Individual members of a panel submitted their sections to the panel as a whole, which often spent days wrangling over a single verse...
...campuses match Harvard for part-time teaching. Theologian Paul J. Tillich, 74, gets 25 to 30 speaking requests a week, is regularly gone from Thursday to Tuesday. Economist-Author John (The Affluent Society) Galbraith gets so many requests that he files them by continent. Schlesinger's schedule is so crowded that he leaves itineraries by the telephone so his children can inform callers, and incidentally themselves. Chemist George B. Kistiakowsky has not even been at Harvard for the past year but in Washington as President Eisenhower's science adviser. Budget Director Bell is now off to Washington-after...
...theology at Woodstock and editor (since 1941) of the learned quarterly Theological Studies. Thin, towering Father Murray is still the debater (and more subtly the actor) of his high school days. Lecturing to his classes of fledgling Jesuits at granite-grey Woodstock-where his major specialty is the Trinity-Theologian Murray makes effective use of his long, well-manicured hands and his well-pitched baritone, which is as clear as his well-organized thought...