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...still controversial. Today, the Society of Jesus is a microcosm of the tensions and turmoil that are sweeping the Roman Catholic Church as a whole. The old certainty that guided the Jesuits for so long has vanished; the new anxieties have arrived. Says Father David Tracy, a non-Jesuit theologian at the University of Chicago's Divinity School: "At one time, when you were seeking an answer, you'd find a Jesuit. Today, when you are looking for a question, you find a Jesuit...
...lost numbers are men abandoning the order?so many in recent years that the newspaper of the society's Oregon province has a feature headlined DEATHS?LEAVES?DEPARTURES. The emigrants are not merely from the ranks, either. U.S. Jesuits who have left have included such eminent names as Theologian Bernard Cooke, Maryland Provincial Edward Sponga and former Woodstock College Rector Felix Cardegna. In addition, the number of new recruits has plunged, especially in developed countries. The U.S.?the society's largest national community with 6,600 Jesuits?used to get some 350 novices each year; now it is down...
...called away from their fascination with other worlds-astrological, metaphysical or religious-and summoned to confront the concrete issues of this one," wrote Cox, a professor of religion at Harvard Divinity School. His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness. Ever since Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch began to preach his social gospel at the end of the 19th century, there had been a growing feeling in U.S. Protestantism that religion was not a thing of pious Sundays but of vigorous, shirtsleeve weekdays. Many Roman Catholics and Jews were also trying to involve their churches...
...from a few days to a year, are Episcopal ministers, Catholic priests, Jews and even atheists. Daily meditation periods include readings from Zen, Hindu and Islamic literature, and participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think of it all?" he wrote about his contemplative experiences. "Words impoverish. For it was at once tempestuous and calming, a wrestling and a dancing, a stillness and a cry. Nothing in my 57 years...
...chemical engineer who entered the ministry at 23 in response to what he termed a "haunting call" from God, and in 1970 was elected president of the 2.5 million-member American Lutheran Church; of a rare disease of the central nervous system; in Minneapolis. An energetic, scholarly theologian, Knutson won the presidency from nine older candidates after the first open political campaigning in the denomination's history...