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...chance, he left his family behind in Slovakia in January, moved alone into a downtown Prague hotel and began working 18-hour days on his reforms. Inevitably, since he wants to transform Czechoslovak society within the wide bounds of social ism, he is compared to the 15th century Czechoslovak Theologian Jan Hus, who tried to reform the Roman Catholic Church from within but saw his followers break away and form their own movement. Hus was burned at the stake. Dubček does not expect any such fate-but he is feeling plenty of heat because of the course...
...teach. After centuries of concentration in Europe, many Jewish scholars are now writing in America. The late Hebrew Philosopher Martin Buber, whose books stress concern for the individual over organized religion, has become a big man on non-Jewish campuses. "In the U.S.," ob serves University of Chicago Theologian J. Coert Rylaarsdam, "there is current ly a great vogue for things Jewish...
...unseen creator. One approach to an answer that appeals more and more to modern Protestant thinkers is the undeniable evidence of religious experience-the intuition men have of their dependence upon God. The popularity of this insight, in turn, leads back to the study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, the theologian who first developed it as a basis of Christian faith. After a generation of neglect, Schleiermacher, who died in 1834, is now being reassessed as the most significant Protestant theologian since Luther and Calvin. Last week Vanderbilt University sponsored a four-day conference commemorating the bicentenary of Schleiermacher's birth...
Passional Approach. Today an increasing number of U.S. Protestant thinkers regard Barth as somewhat old hat and Schleiermacher as much more of a living force. University of Chicago Theologian Langdon Gilkey notes that "when students come across him, they say, 'This is a guy who can help me.' Students tend to come alive with Schleiermacher." The most obvious reason for the revival of interest in his work is that the "passional" experience of religion-as Schleiermacher called it-makes more sense to modern man than a purely intellectual...
...Scripture. Convinced that denominationalism had outlived its usefulness, he was an embryonic ecumenist and worked to achieve a merger between Germany's Reformed and Lutheran churches. "People are learning," says Schubert Ogden of Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology, "that Schleiermacher was the first great theologian to articulate a reinterpretation of Christian tradition in reference to modern life...