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...published long defenses of the natural-law argument against birth control, for example, as well as attacks on it. Its columnists include conservative Catholic Garry Wills, a frequent contributor to the National Review, and liberal Catholic John Leo of Commonweal−as well as Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty...
...decade ago, Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer wrote a much reprinted article on "the pornography of death." Gorer's point, also made by German Theologian Helmuth Thielicke, is that death is coming to have the same position in modern life and literature that sex had in Victorian times. Some support for the theory is provided by the current movie The Loved One, which turns death into a slapstick dirty joke...
...seems an unaccountable, brief flash in the interstellar dark. Not that this has destroyed the power of faith to confront death. Beyond the doubts of its own "demythologers," and on a plane of thought beyond either denial or confirmation by science, Christianity still offers the hope of eternal life. Theologians are debating whether this means immortality in the sense of the survival of the soul, or resurrection, in the sense of a new creation. Either concept is totally different from the endless treadmill of reincarnation visualized by the Eastern religions; the Christian view of eternity is not merely endless time...
...more realistic about death," says one psychiatrist. "But inside I think they are more afraid. Those old religious assurances that there would be a gathering-in some day have largely been discarded, and I see examples all the time of neuroses caused by the fear of death." Harvard Theologian Krister Stendahl agrees. "Socrates," he points out, "died in good cheer and in control, unlike the agony of Jesus with his deep human cry of desertion and loneliness. Americans tend to behave as Socrates did. But there is more of what Jesus stands for lurking in our unconsciousness...
...True Church? Protestant observers and progressive Catholic theologians generally approved what they took to be a new emphasis on the place of Scripture in the church. But they were sorely disappointed in changes proposed for another key document; the declaration that all men have a right to liberty of conscience in religious matters. An added paragraph asserts that God has indicated to all men the way of salvation, which is through membership in the Catholic Church, and that all men have a "sacred duty" to join it once they perceive the truth of the church's faith. Many council...