Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That argument comes from the Rev. Carl F.H. Henry in the first two volumes of his projected four-volume work, God, Revelation and Authority (Word Books; $12.95 per volume). Publication of the two volumes establishes Baptist Henry, 64, as the leading theologian of the nation's growing Evangelical flank...
...missionary priest to Asia, currently in Rome, criticized the reasoning that priests must be men because Christ chose only male apostles. If so, he said, "the priesthood should be open only to fishermen and Jews." The shortage of missionary priests, according to American Moral Theologian Francis X. Murphy, is one element that may eventually change Vatican thinking. Says he: "Women will be ordained when there is necessity for it, as there is in the Third World. You can't have the church without the Eucharist...
...University of Wisconsin: "Our mood now is one of quiet expectancy." Still, as Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have to do that...
...pastor and theologian, I found your cover story on stars profound, sensitive and lucid. Once the theologian and scientist face the incomprehensible honestly, they both become more believable...
...compendium of doctrine, innovative and stimulating, has one problem at the core. No theologian has been more impatient than Küng with the Catholic Church's old magisterium (teaching office). Yet throughout the book Küng urges his readers, in effect, to trust the authority of a new magisterium of university scholars on what should be believed about Jesus and what should be discarded. In doing so, Küng has become the leading theologian of what could be called the Liberal Protestant party within the Roman Catholic Church. He has also provided the committees...