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...Divinity School faculty last month sent a resolution to 17 theologians and religious leaders--including the pope--showing its concern for the Vatican's censure of Catholic theologian Hans Kung...
Unifying a nation behind such extremist positions is a remarkable achievement for an austere theologian who little more than a year ago was totally unknown in the West he now menaces. But Khomeini's carefully cultivated air of mystic detachment cloaks an iron will, an inflexible devotion to simple ideas that he has preached for decades, and a finely tuned instinct for articulating the passions and rages of his people. Khomeini is no politician in the Western sense, yet he possesses the most awesome?and ominous ?of political gifts: the ability to rouse millions to both adulation and fury...
...properties administered by the Shi'ite clergy and reduced their income, some of which consisted of donations from large landholders. The White Revolution also gave the vote to women. The Shah suppressed those disturbances without outside help, in part by jailing one of the instigators ?an ascetic theologian named Ruhollah Khomeini, who had recently attained the title of Ayatullah* and drawn crowds to fiery sermons in which...
...Approved overwhelmingly in a Dec. 2-3 referendum, the constitution provided for an elected President and parliament, but placed above them a "guardian council" of devout Muslims to make sure that nothing the elected bodies do violates Islamic law. Atop the structure is a faqih (literally, jurisprudent), the leading theologian of Iran, who must approve...
...toward the future. He notes: " 'What are you doing next year?' can be, and often is, regarded as a hostile question." Gomes makes cheerful academic jokes (on Ascension Day: "It is the Lord who graduates") and will quote Ogden Nash or Woody Allen as freely as Crisis Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. But he offers no easy optimism or simple uplift to his young charges. "Human progress is a foolish myth of epic proportions," Gomes insists. "It is the fantasy of our age and time. Human perseverance in the face of human folly, it is that of which the kingdom...