Word: theologian
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Such painstaking--and painful--revisionism suggests why, three weeks before its publication and a week before the appearance of a long excerpt in Vanity Fair, a Vatican theologian had already branded Hitler's Pope a "shameful libel." Cornwell, a practicing Catholic, says he originally enlisted "on the side of all these chaps in believing Pius had had a really bad deal" at his critics' hands. But research into the lightly trod territory of Pius' decades-long German involvement before his papacy left Cornwell in a state of "moral shock," he says. "The material I had gathered amounted...
Opened in 1983 by a British-born feminist theologian named Edwina Gately, Genesis House is one of just a handful of U.S. recovery centers for prostitutes. As social-service and law-enforcement agencies have learned about its success rate and unusual approach in dealing with seemingly intractable clients, it has become a model for similar programs from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain...
...current effort to settle justification began in the '60s, when Catholicism joined the ecumenical movement. Theologians from both traditions eventually concluded that the 16th century anathemas were more a function of crossed wires than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God. The Joint Declaration, says emeritus Yale theologian George Lindbeck, who helped draft earlier efforts, reflects the conclusion that Catholicism never denied justification through grace; it was simply more focused on the human drama of the transformed sinner than on the exclusively divine origin of his or her transformation. "The two descriptions of salvation...
Before leaving for Rome, Weakland told TIME he admires John Paul's character, but suggested a theologian could "find ways of relooking" at the Pope's ban on female priests. He plans to state his fear of a schism "in the context of not wanting the Catholic Church to undergo what has happened to the Jewish community or the Lutherans, where groups seldom talk to each other." Framed that way, the plaint almost obligates John Paul to talk back...
...beyond Sunday morning services and the physical limits placed upon their structures. Likewise, the tiny Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Kirkland and Quincy streets and its founder have influenced the Harvard community. Henry James, Sr. 'was an avid reader of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish theologian who was the inspiration for the Church of the New Jerusalem. Henry in turn influenced his eldest son William, the philosopher and psychologist for whom our William James Hall is named. Just up Quincy Street a few blocks from the Chapel is Harvard's Faculty Club, formerly the home...