Word: theologian
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...bishop delegates at Puebla with conservatives. However, 139 of them were elected by the hierarchies in their own countries. As a result, Brazil's 37 votes will be largely progressive. Moderates and conservatives predominate in the important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero, a hero to the poor, was not elected by his conservative colleagues and will attend only...
...done nothing else, however, the new coincidence of scientific and theological versions of creation seems to have opened up a conversation that has been neglected for centuries. Roman Catholic Theologian Hans Küng detects the beginning of a new period, which he calls "pro-existence," of mutual assistance between theologians and natural scientists. People capable of genetic engineering and nuclear fission obviously require all the spiritual and ethical guidance they can get. As for theologians, the interchange between physics and metaphysics will inevitably enlarge their ideas and give them a more complex grounding in the physically observed universe...
Down with the old "The World Council of Churches has become an ecclesiastical United Nations, a place for power plays." So lamented a leading U.S. orthodox theologian, John Meyendorff, last week during a meeting of the council's 140-member central committee in Jamaica. What worried Meyendorff and some others was that the council's approach to Christian unity has become too political. The central committee reaffirmed the council's Program to Combat Racism, despite church protests over its $85,000 grant to Rhodesia's Patriotic Front for "humanitarian programs." The front's guerrillas have...
Another signal of the W.C.C.'s change of direction, and the one that triggered Meyendorffs dismay, was the ouster of Swiss Reformed Theologian Lukas Vischer as head of the council's Commission on Faith and Order, which seeks ecumenical unity through theological discussion. Although Vischer personally supported the antiracism grants, he was a symbol, to increasingly influential Third World activists within the W.C.C., of an old-fashioned theological approach to ecumenism. The commission, which is the only major W.C.C. agency with official Roman Catholic members, strongly urged that Vischer be reappointed to a job he has held since...
...Christian ethic counsels individuals to turn the other cheek, but it does not hold that a society should operate on the principle. Turning the other cheek is an ideal, says Roman Catholic Theologian Daniel Maguire, "like a horizon to turn to. It is not a practical guide for the police in The Bronx...