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DIED. ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN, 81, witty, accessible Presbyterian theologian who championed ecumenism and civil rights and served with Elie Wiesel on President Carter's Holocaust Commission; in Greenfield, Mass. Brown, whom TIME once called "the Catholics' favorite Protestant," co-wrote the book An American Dialogue to help dispel anti-Catholic prejudice against John F. Kennedy...
...pilgrim people who will always find themselves in one political community or another but who are never defined completely by it. Thus, as the body of Christ on Earth, Christians must be a "sign of contradiction," to borrow a term from Pope John Paul II, a moral theologian much admired by the very Anabaptist Methodist Hauerwas. Hauerwas recently argued that in a human future he believes will be bleak, Christians should be known as "those peculiar people who don't kill their babies [through abortion] or their old people [through euthanasia...
...speech, given to joking about the "ontological superiority of being a Texan," he has written 25 books and hundreds of essays and articles on dozens of topics. Avoiding highly technical monographs, Hauerwas insists that the best theology is most often found in sermons, homilies, prayers and popular writing. The theologian who is faithful must engage the pressing issues of the culture rather than hide behind impenetrable jargon...
...simpler life with deeper meaning is a major shift in America's private agenda. ''This is a rapid and extremely powerful movement,'' says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. ''I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country.'' Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: ''We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history.'' Some social observers have...
...their search for more enduring gratification in life, many people are seeking spirituality, if not a born-again commitment to organized religion. ''Spirituality is in,'' says theologian Marty, ''so much so that I get embarrassed by it.'' Says Milton Walsh, a Roman Catholic priest who is pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco: ''People want some kind of direction and purpose, the basic 'Who am I? Where am I going...