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...Charles Davis is England's leading Roman Catholic theologian. A peritus (expert) at the Second Vatican Council, he has been editor of the Clergy Review, a provocative intellectual monthly aimed at priests, professor of theology at Jesuit-run Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, and has written several well-reviewed theological tomes. Understandably, England's Catholics were shocked last week when Father Davis announced that after 20 years as a priest he was leaving the church. Compounding the shock, Davis, 43, also said that he intended to marry an American Catholic, Florence Henderson, 36, of Farmingdale, N.Y., a theology student...
Initially, Davis' Catholic friends were too stunned to respond to the news, although Rosemary Haughton, a housewife and lay theologian, wrote to the Guardian that his defection "is a staggering blow to the whole church." Guardian Columnist Geoffrey Moorhouse also saw it in those terms. "For Catholicism," he wrote, "it is a blow as bitter as the one Anglicans sustained 100 years ago when John Henry Newman departed for Rome." Davis' friend and superior, John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster, said only that he would pray "that God will guide him in all his undertakings...
...those who have mastered his convoluted German prose, Gogarten is regarded as a pioneering, creative theologian to rank with Karl Earth, Rudolph Bultmann, Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. After World War I, when Earth published his monumental commentary on Romans, Gogarten was taking the same line in an equally slashing attack on theological liberalism called "Between the Times" - a title that Barth, Gogarten and other like-minded thinkers later used for a new theological journal in which they expounded the ideas of what came to be called neo-Orthodoxy. Even before Buber published his classic and Thou, Gogarten had worked...
...Theologian, Gogarten sees in secularization two separate but related processes. One is a revolt against organized religion, in which ideas and in stitutions that once were Christian have been transformed into totally profane and human phenomena. Education, for example, was once considered an exclusively religious responsibility, and in the Middle Ages, the state was thought to be subject to the church. The deeper meaning of secularization is the transformation of man's relationship to the universe from that of a hapless prisoner of cosmic fate to that of free, responsible custodian of the world and everything...