Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite amusing to watch Hans Kung, as a theologian, sawing away at the branch he is sitting on. For if the propositions of faith are as inadequate as he claims them to be, he is surely not entitled to assert that God is infallible, or that faith is not the acceptance of infallible propositions but a commitment to Christ and his message. And why bother with Christ's message if he could have been mistaken...
...Ramsey and others, genetic surgery?repairing, replacing or suppressing a "sick" gene?could be profoundly moral. Depending on the defect, genetic surgery before or after birth could prevent abnormality, and also insure that it was not passed on. Moral Theologian Bernard Häring of Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana applauds basic remedial intervention as "corrective foresight...
...consider such issues, Roman Catholic Lay Theologian Daniel Callahan and a number of like-minded ethicists and scientists have set up the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. Among the 70 members are Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, Theologian John C. Bennett, and U.S. Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, who three years ago introduced a bill to establish an interdisciplinary committee to examine new scientific problems. It did not pass, but Mondale is trying again this year. "There may still be time," he says, "to establish some ground rules...
...most daring scrutinizers is Father Hans Kűng, 43, a Swiss-born professor of theology at Tubingen University in West Germany. An acid-penned theological nonconformist, Kűng does more than re-examine the doctrine; he is the first important Catholic theologian to come right out and deny it. The Vatican is understandably unhappy, and for two months the sounds of its displeasure have thundered around Kűng's head; he has been under attack from the hierarchies of Germany, Italy and France. This week, with the American publication of his blunt book Infallible? An Inquiry...
...Carlo Colombo of Milan, helped write a statement for the Italian hierarchy declaring that it is impossible to support or spread Kűng's views "without separating oneself from the full communion of the church." More startlingly, Kűng's old friend and mentor, Jesuit Theologian Karl Rahner, doubted that a theologian with such opinions could still be considered a Catholic...