Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty much the devil's province, that because man has failed on earth God has failed too is common enough. According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas. Bernstein, after all, is an artist and entertainer, not a theologian. But even his stagecraft, his taste and his music, despite many delights and flourishes, reflect a basic confusion...
That may be an accurate description of society's dilemma, but Skinner's solution seems equally frightening. To Theologian Rubenstein, Beyond Freedom and Dignity is an important but "terrifying" book. Skinner's "utopian projection," he says, "is less likely to be a blueprint for the Golden Age than for the theory and practice of hell...
...Ginsberg does not exactly enjoy his obsession, another TIME watcher is more positive (and eclectic). Matthew Fox, a Roman Catholic theologian, this year published Religion U.S.A.: Religion and Culture by Way of TIME Magazine. In 451 pages, Fox argues that the magazine is as symbolic was its era's attitudes and aspirations as Chartres Cathedral was of the Middle Ages...
...priests choose to marry first and ask questions later, the Rev. Daniel C. Maguire, 40, has been something of an anomaly-and a considerable problem for his ecclesiastical superiors. Maguire wanted to marry, but was determined to win papal permission-beforehand. He also happened to be a respected moral theologian teaching at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He meant to retain that position after marrying...
Standing Joke. The theologian pressed his case for 21 months, far longer than most U.S. priests now have to wait for laicization. Catholic University got itself into an unseemly tangle. Maguire had a contract that ran until 1972, which if served out would automatically have assured him tenure next year. C.U. President Clarence C. Walton, however, terminated Maguire's contract last May. The Academic Senate refused to endorse Walton's action, and a committee was appointed to resolve the impasse. Embarrassed by it all, the school's Graduate Student Association charged that the university was becoming...