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...else, the Christian atheists are waking the churches to the brutal reality that the basic premise of faith?the existence of a personal God, who created the world and sustains it with his love?is now subject to profound attack. "What is in question is God himself," warns German Theologian Heinz Zahrnt, "and the churches are fighting a hard defensive battle, fighting for every inch." "The basic theological problem today," says one thinker who has helped define it, Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "is the reality...
Princeton Theologian Paul Ramsey observes that "ours is the first attempt in recorded history to build a culture upon the premise that God is dead." In the traditional citadels of Christendom, grey Gothic cathedrals stand empty, mute witnesses to a rejected faith. From the scrofulous hobos of Samuel Beckett to Antonioni's tired-blooded aristocrats, the anti-heroes of modern art endlessly suggest that waiting for God is futile, since life is without meaning...
...student found a boon in What (If Anything) to Expect from Today's Philosophers (Jan. 7). "More than anything else," he wrote us, "those two pages helped to wrap up a semester's course in modern philosophy-and just in time for the final exam." Protestant Theologian Henry P. Van Dusen deemed On Death As a Constant Companion (Nov. 12) "the most masterly in a notable sequence...
Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
This may gradually change the church's view on what constitutes a valid marriage. If the chief end of marriage is conjugal love, says one theologian, its absence could flaw the marriage contract to the point that the union itself becomes invalid...