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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women of Corinth may have merely been sound advice: Corinth was a mixed community of Jew and Gentile Christians, and Paul probably feared that the more liberated Greek women would offend the Jews if they did not wear veils or spoke up too loudly during services. Jewish Theologian Richard L. Rubenstein, in a new book, My Brother Paul, admits that Paul's theology is pointedly masculine for much of its course, but sees a feminine image in Paul's vision of the "restoration of all things" in Christ at the end of time. That restoration culminates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father God, Mother Eve | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

Another Catholic feminist, Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether of Howard University, suggests that a rise of feminine influence would liberate men as well as women by overthrowing man's technological empire-a "denatured Babel of concrete and steel." Then, says Ruether, men and women together could "learn to cultivate the garden . . . where the powers of rationalization come together with the harmonies of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father God, Mother Eve | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...resurgence of interest in devils at all? Canadian Theologian Kenneth Hamilton blames demythologized religion. "Liberal Protestantism excluded anything that couldn't be explained. But you can't have religious faith without the existence of a world transcending this one. People are starved of anything transcendent, and they have gone to the oldest and crudest superstitions." Evangelist Billy Graham says that Satanism is on the rise because belief in Jesus is growing. "The devil," asserts Graham, "is also making his pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Raising the Devil | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

Whatever the lasting strength of the new interest, few proponents of the devils' existence are likely to want to return to the witch hunts of other ages, or to a frequent use of bell, book and candle exorcisms. As British Author-Theologian C.S. Lewis wrote in 1941: "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Raising the Devil | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...There is nothing in exobiology or any other real science that should throw any Catholic theologian into a tizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1972 | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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