Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dominican Father Luigi Ciappi, 67, who has been Paul's personal theologian since...
Liberal Strength. A growing number of Catholic theologians, priests and educators openly favor a much more permissive policy, however. The most sweeping American challenge yet to the hierarchy's view occurs with this month's publication of a 322-page sex report,* four years in preparation, that was commissioned by the board of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Its 1,000 members include virtually all the church's seminary and university religion teachers in the U.S. and Canada. Human Sexuality was written by a committee of two priests, one nun and two laymen, headed by Father...
When Father Kosnik's committee delivered its report to the Catholic Theological Society board a year ago, there was a flurry over how to handle it. Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles, then president of the society, says: "We were aware that it was an explosive document." In an effort to avert criticism, Dulles assigned three scholars to review the work and make suggestions to the committee before the fourth and final draft was written...
...aspect of doctrine, Moltmann has come to a radical conclusion for a theologian nurtured in a state church. He argues that infant baptism should be phased out because it signifies ties to "family, nation and society" as much as a person's identification with Christ. The church, he says, should baptize only those who "confess their faith." If Moltmann had added total immersion in water, a Southern Baptist would have felt right at home...
...never existed, to teachings he never taught, to a mandate he never issued, and to a claim that he was God's son which he never presumed for himself." When it came out in Germany in 1972, the book was attacked by Christian thinkers of all varieties; Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner condemned it as a "frontal and total attack" on Christ. Augstein, however, has merely selected and exaggerated ideas propounded by some eminently respectable German theologians...