Word: theologians
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Potential Split. Communio is loosely allied with journals in Germany, Italy and Yugoslavia, two of which bear the same name. Like them, it bears the theological imprint of a reclusive Swiss theologian, Father Hans Urs von Balthasar, who is the intellectual leader of the more moderate elements in the European wing of the counterreformation...
...central figure, Jean Cardinal Daniélou, was an internationally famous Jesuit theologian, a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a personal friend of Pope Paul VI, and an honored "immortal" of the French Academy. After he died of an aneurysm one afternoon in May, supposedly on the street, Daniélou, 69, was lavishly eulogized by the French episcopacy, the Jesuit Superior General and the Vatican...
...signers is Catholic Theologian Daniel C. Maguire of Marquette University, author of the recent book Death by Choice. In an accompanying essay, Maguire points out that in spite of the widespread notion that Catholics are totally opposed to active euthanasia, or what he plainly calls mercy killing, he is not the only Catholic theologian who believes it may be justified in some cases...
...recent years, there has been an exodus of well-known names from Union, climaxed last winter by the retirement of Theologian Paul Lehmann. Replacements in theology are hard to come by because of Union's new stress on hiring blacks and women: there are simply not enough of either qualified for the posts. Moreover, the faculty has been sharply cut along with the student body...
...doctrine is fuzzy, subject to disparate interpretations and all too easily perverted. But Graham is groping wildly in connecting situation ethics and the Watergate coverup. Says Theologian Joseph Fletcher, author of Situation Ethics: the New Morality: "It is a misinterpretation. Those involved in Watergate weren't conducting themselves according to situation ethics. They didn't weigh the moral options. Their one guiding principle was to win at any price. Graham knows or ought to know better...