Word: theologians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Theologian, reluctant rebel, martyr of the German Confessing Church in its struggle against Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become something of a religious folk hero in recent years, credited variously with being both a religious Che Guevara and a founder of secular theology. Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's student, coconspirator, and literary executor, expands what is already known about Bonhoeffer, but also adds important new material...
...Catholic theologian Rev. Hans Kung reports that a secret Vatican document recently circulated among selected bishops would use Vatican II "letter" to revert to Vatican I "spirit," leave only the Pope with real power, make "legalisms of dogma and dogmatize law" -this last, the kind of fusion Father Cunningham and Rabbi Miller seem to be approaching with their sinful driving and tref table grapes...
Robert Flynn is one of those theologian-novelists who back their characters up against a dead-end wall and demand their credo or their life. In his latest little parable, Flynn proves he could turn even the Garden of Eden into one of his cul-de-sacs...
This crisis behind them, the theologians went briskly to business. Three-a-day speeches, directed toward such topics as the contemporary meaning of the Christian message and the place of the church in society, had begun during the resolutions squabble. Yves Congar spoke of the rise of small, experimental Christian communities, arguing that despite irregularities "they represent something valuable, and must be accepted." Belgian Theologian Antoine Vergote argued for a more relaxed church attitude in promulgating sex ethics, charging that too many potential Catholics are discouraged by moral laws presented as "finished and perfect systems that one must take...
...fugitive Jesuit gave interviews, wrote articles and even made two public speeches while managing to elude the FBI. Last week Berrigan's luck ran out. Twelve agents, posing as bird watchers, arrested him at the Block Island summer home of William Stringfellow, a lawyer and Episcopal lay theologian, and Anthony Towne, a poet...