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...weightiest objection to the Second Coming speculations is made by Protestant Theologian G.C. Berkouwer of Amsterdam in his volume on church dogmatics called The Return of Christ. The New Testament, argues Conservative Berkouwer, "rules out any attempt at calculation. To be curious on this score merely proves that one does not understand the events of history. The coming salvation can only be awaited in a state of complete preparedness." That would seem to be good advice. After all, the Gospels carry Jesus' own warning about expectation of the end: "Of that day or hour no one knows...
...tour have worked together for a long time trying to end the war, DeWitt said. Also in the delegation are Bishop James Armstrong of the United Methodist Church who headed the clergy's campaign for Senator George McGovern, Rabbi Leonard Beerman of Los Angeles, Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian theologian at Stanford, and Sister Mary Luke Tobin of the Sisters of Loretto...
...George Ball, "the theologian," and "the last man in Washington to write his own speeches," warning that Viet Nam might require 300,000 American troops. Kennedy's answer: "George, you're crazier than hell...
Congar agrees. "The theologian today is recognized as a mediator between the magisterium and the world," he says. "The magisterium possesses the charisma representing the unity of Christ." The magisterium's role is to express "what is true," Congar emphasized, while today's theologian is expected to chart new modes of defining those truths. "The theologian must be in constant contact with human sciences, with latest developments in all kinds of thought. Take the question of sexuality. We cannot speak of such a matter in the same terms we used before Freud. The theologian has the responsibility...
Party Whip. Yet this elaboration and search is now being sharply questioned, especially when it leads to the relaxation of discipline. One of the questioners is Jean Cardinal Danielou, a Jesuit theologian once regarded as a liberal, who has become a kind of party whip for orthodoxy. Danielou recently took to Vatican Radio to deplore the "false concept of liberty" that he says has sprung from a misinterpretation of the Second Vatican Council. "We must put people on their guard against books, journals and conferences where false ideas are propagated," he said. One idea he cited as false was that...