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...Defense Attorney Paul Chevigny, it was "a classic freedom of religion issue." Agreed Attorney Jeremiah Gutman of the American Civil Liberties Union: "This case affects the most fundamental kind of First Amendment issues." Added Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox: "Some Oriental religious movements bother us because they pose a threat to the values of career success, individual competition, personal ambition and consumption, on which our economic system depends. We forget that Christianity, taken literally, could cause similar disquietude...
...Sick," says Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago Divinity School about the same woman. Adds another theologian: "The Christian whore...
...Teilhard during his lifetime, now go out of their way to find and praise valuable insights in his writings. The Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University reports with pride that Teilhard leads its compilation of the most-read Catholic thinkers over the past ten years. Even so, says French Theologian Yves Congar, "it is certain that his influence is diminishing." American Jesuit Avery Dulles thinks Teilhard's impact persists, though mainly through writers who were influenced...
That argument comes from the Rev. Carl F.H. Henry in the first two volumes of his projected four-volume work, God, Revelation and Authority (Word Books; $12.95 per volume). Publication of the two volumes establishes Baptist Henry, 64, as the leading theologian of the nation's growing Evangelical flank...
...Evangelicals," who wanted to embrace orthodox doctrine while rejecting Fundamentalist excesses. From 1956 to 1968, Henry was Evangelicalism's foremost journalist and strategist, as the founding editor of Christianity Today. Since leaving the journal after a complex dispute with its board, Henry has become a freelance theologian based in Arlington, Va., and is currently the "lecturer at large" with World Vision...