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Protestant Theologian Paul Ramsey, a professor of religion at Princeton, declines to identify the precise moment when life begins. But he argues that science now offers evidence of human characteristics in the fetus far earlier than once believed. "I do not say human life begins with conception," says Ramsey, "but science has given us ample factual grounds for believing that the unborn child is an independent human being within the time span [that is, six months] in which the law now says this unborn child can be killed...
...inspired him. Both Willie and King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. "In college he was very much like the rest of the students, which made his meteoric rise to fame really almost miraculous,' he says. Willie named his second child after his two heroes, Martin Luther King and theologian Martin Buber...
...Christmas shots heard round the theological world, the Vatican in 1979 summoned Father Edward Schillebeeckx from The Netherlands for questioning as a possible heretic and then declared that West Germany's Father Hans Küng had no license to practice as a "Catholic" theologian. Since then Küng has been moved from the Cath olic faculty at the University of Tübingen into an unattached religion professorship. As for Schillebeeckx, whose belief in the divinity of Christ has been questioned, the Vatican has quietly decided to take no action, at least for now, thus signaling that...
Liberal Catholics are also angry with John Paul's Vatican for declaring that Father Hans Küng no longer be considered a "Catholic theologian." This order forced Küng's official removal last April from the Catholic theology faculty at the University of Tübingen, where he still teaches as a free-floating professor. Küng was in the U.S. and Britain during John Paul's visit. The Pope never mentioned him by name, but in a meeting with theologians he defended the duty of church authorities to preserve divine truth. Elsewhere...
Hans Kung, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent liberal theologian banned by the Vatican a year ago from teaching in Catholic institutions, will speak at Memorial Church next Wednesday...