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...reason for the increasing shrillness of dissent is sheer frustration that the voices of protest do not seem to be heeded in Washington. "Johnson, Humphrey and Rusk are simply not paying any attention to the word of protest," complains Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford...
...clear proof that the Saigon government represents the will of the people. Few if any of the antiwar clerics advocate handing the country directly over to Hanoi, but they argue that the U.S. has no divine mandate to use war to prevent the spread of Communism. Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College argues that the U.S. anti-Communist policy is "the holy-war theory, and it has been specifically rejected by the church." O'Hanlon contends that the pronouncements of both Pope John XXIII and Paul VI propose dialogue...
Looking far ahead, some church visionaries see a trend toward more worship in small, homogeneous groups-either at home, at work, or in chapel-size churchlets. Presbyterian Theologian Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford, who believes that the traditional parish structure will eventually be an anachronism, suggests that the church should be prepared to quarter itself "in campaign tents rather than cathedrals. That would reflect the mobility of the modern church and allow it to go where the people are." Otherwise, Brown predicts, "we'll have a lot more buildings than we know what to do with...
...someone came in off the street and asked me whether I believed in God, I would say, 'No, I'm an agnostic.' Because I know what most people mean when they say God. But if a theologian asked me, I'd say 'Yes and no, let's try to define it.' That's what I tried to do. I tried to define the religious dimension of man, which I think can exist with or without God. I think it makes perfect sense to describe this dimension as an experience of a Supreme Being. Whether it's your own being supreme...
Confused & Eclectic. The goal of religious hippies is union with God, whom they envision as a "cosmic consciousness." Despite its bizarre aspects, a surprising number of clergymen see the hippie faith as a genuine spiritual impulse. "Hippieness has all the marks of a new religious movement," writes Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox, in, of all places, the current issue of Playboy. "It has its evangelists, its sacred grottoes, its exuberant converts." He suggests that the hippies' quest for warmth and love is a warning to Christianity. Other churchmen quite rightly question the spiritual validity of an undigested mixture of drug-induced...