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Many of the names were celebrated: English Philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, smoking her trademark cigar, Radical Poet Kenneth Rexroth, Expatriate Catholic Theologian Charles Davis, Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie, Protestant Theologian Langdon Gilkey, U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy. As McCarthy said of the assemblage, which included mathematicians and scientists as well as theologians and philosophers: "You would have to spend ten years going around the world to find all these people...
...from the start, Mosley is the first president who has not come out of a Calvinist tradition. He is not an academic like current President John C. Bennett, a pioneering scholar in modern Christian social ethics. Nor is he likely to emulate the firm-handed rule of another distinguished theologian, Henry Pitney Van Dusen, whose 18-year tenure (1945-63) brought Union to its peak of prestige...
...public addresses and letters, Pope Paul has clearly indicated that he cannot accept the Dutch demand, although he is willing to discuss the possibility of ordaining a few elderly married laymen to the priesthood where pastoral necessity demands it. Alfrink and the bishops are encouraged by what a Dutch theologian calls an "opening in an eternal wall of 'No.' " It remains to be seen whether the papal concession will satisfy the progressives who dominate the Dutch church's lay and clerical ranks. But Alfrink remains hopeful that the hierarchy can avoid a split. "We all mean well, both here...
...requested laicization* because of a "growing disaffection with the way in which power and authority are exercised in the official church," is on a year's leave of absence at Holy Cross College; he has been officially welcomed back to Fordham for the school's fall semester. Catholic University Theologian Daniel C. Maguire, who helped draft the critique of Humanae Vitae signed by some 600 U.S. Catholic academics, resigned his ministry last November to marry. He is still an associate professor of religion and ethics at the university and plans to remain...
Died. Josef Hromádka, 80, Czechoslovak theologian and proponent of Christian-Communist entente; of a heart attack; in Prague. For years, Soviet Communism had no stronger Protestant advocate than Hromádka. Even so, he argued that, because Marxist-Leninist doctrine did not answer the ultimate questions of life, Christianity might eventually transform Communism. But the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 dashed all his hopes. "My deepest feeling is of disillusionment, sorrow and shame," he wrote, before resigning from the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, which he had founded...