Word: theologians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argues that Joseph Quinlan, as his daughter's guardian, has the responsibility to care for her best interest-and that includes, Armstrong says, the right to die with dignity. Whether this is legally persuasive remains to be seen, but it has attracted support among religious thinkers. Says Theologian Martin Marty: "When in any other age she would be dead, then I believe that it is not playing God to stop extraordinary treatment; in fact, it is playing God to keep her alive...
Today's religious renewals often do little more than provide selfish personal kicks and highs. The humbler churches agree with Walt Kelly's Pogo, who sounded like a biblical theologian when he said, "We have faults which we have hardly used yet." Nevertheless, Jews and Christians still see the height of prophetic faith in Micah's command to "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." A hundred million American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made...
...basic Christian case against homosexuality is also founded on the concept of a natural order. Says German Theologian Helmut Thielicke: Homosexuality is in every case not in accord with the order of creation. Many theologians still...
...psychologist, a non-anthropologist, a non-theologian, a non-ethologist--as in fact nothing more than a novelist--I qualify through my ignorance as a terrestrial Martian. Since I am only a novelist, a somewhat estranged and bewildered person whose business it is to see things and people as if he had never seen them before, it is possible for me not only to observe scientists observing people as data--in short to take a Martian view...
...international Protestant leader has added a new item to the crowded agenda for ecumenical discussion between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Writing in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the Rev. Lukas Vischer, top staff theologian at the Geneva-based World Council of Churches, criticizes the political status of Vatican City, the 108.7-acre enclave in Rome where Roman Catholicism is headquartered...