Word: theologian
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...request by British television's Channel 4 to write and present a six-part documentary series on St. Paul revived her interest in religion. "What I really am is a historian of ideas," she says, "rather than a theologian, which sounds a bit narrow." She considers herself an unaffiliated monotheist who appreciates many aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy but finds it easier to pray with Jews and Muslims. "Only Western Christianity makes a song and dance about creeds and beliefs," she says. "The authentic test of a religion is not what you believe. It's what you do, and unless your...
...mystery," Armstrong writes, "the Faylasufs believed he was reason itself." But they also acknowledged the chaos and disorder of the universe and recognized that their quest for ultimate meaning was a difficult one. Indirectly, the Faylasufs influenced such medieval thinkers as the Jewish sage Maimonides and the greatest Catholic theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas...
...tendency toward "belligerent righteousness," which has led to pogroms, inquisitions and other shameful manifestations of intolerance that defile the image of God as a benevolent creator. The other -- most apparent in Western Christianity -- is a tendency to define God in terms compatible with secular thinking. Thus the Jesuit theologian Leonard Lessius (1554-1623) argued that the existence of God could be demonstrated scientifically, like any other fact. Similarly, the 19th century German exponents of the Science of Judaism argued that their religion was a wholly rational faith. Alas, the end result of treating the deity as just another provable fact...
...DAVID JOSEPH KENNEDY has been vastly successful at Harvard. But these successes--and the context in which he has achieved them--sometimes betray his own desire to live life freely, to quote from both "In Living Color" and a German theologian in the same conversation, to write for Perspective and Lampoon in the same week...
...After watching West coax amen after amen from the hard-to-please congregation of the Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, with a fiery sermon, many people are convinced he's an ordained minister. Observed theologian William Sloane Coffin, who witnessed it: "That was black preaching at its best." The truth, says West, is that although he accepted Christ as his personal Saviour when he was 14, "I've just never felt the call to preach. I don't proselytize for anybody, including Jesus...