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...single time I have seen or heard him, I have learned something new." The new Pope himself seems ready to learn. Over the summer, he met in a one-month span with the leaders of the ultratraditionalist Lefebvrites and then with Hans Küng, a Swiss-born progressive theologian who has loudly disagreed with much of Cardinal Ratzinger's doctrine. He showed no sign of giving ground on either flank, but he listened. At October's Synod of Bishops, he introduced the first-ever open discussion period, and took part in it. "That the Pope himself spoke...
Protestants have never felt the kind of unease with Joseph that, in a kind of allergic response to Catholicism's elaborate exultation of Mary, inhibited their relationship with the Virgin. On the other hand, he doesn't particularly interest them either. There are exceptions. The neo-orthodox theologian Karl Barth championed Joseph's role of taking care of Jesus. The black church in the U.S., says Robert Franklin, an expert on that topic at Atlanta's Emory University, has long felt a connection between Joseph as patriarch of an unexpectedly blended family and African-American slave history, in which...
...Christian families to worship together at home-carries little weight with some critics. "The church is supposed to be brothers and sisters in Christ-the primary family. These churches are putting the wants and needs of the physical family first, not that spiritual family," says Ben Witherington, a theologian at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky. "Our society is narcissistic enough. We don't need to encourage more me-focused behavior...
...Mirecki said. But John Calvert, managing director of the Intelligent Design Network, said the term “mythology” should not be used in connection with intelligent design since it connotes an idea that is unscientific. “These two courses are just a joke. A theologian and an anthropologist have no place in teaching intelligent design,” Calvert said. Both Hoopes and Mirecki cited their experiences at Harvard as very influential in their respective paths at Kansas. Hoopes, a former resident tutor in Dunster House, credited his work with retired Peabody Professor of Archaeology...
...chose as one of your heroes theologian and physician Peter Okaalet, who works in Africa with pastors and their congregations to redefine their response to the AIDS epidemic. Okaalet exemplifies the most important weapon in our war on poverty and disease: education. He teaches people to let go of the holier-than-thou attitude of condemning others, and he helps them recognize that preventive medicine takes us one step closer to the dream of solving the developing world's problems. Muhammed Khan Jersey City, New Jersey...