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Only to Altizer and William Hamilton, another key thinker in the movement, was there a real death of a historical God. As Altizer saw it, the transcendant God of the Bible had died when he be came Jesus, whose incarnation made God man for all time. From that point on, argued Altizer, God was no longer the transcendant "wholly other" of Karl Barth, but an immanent part of mankind, a divinity that men could reach for in themselves. Altizer, now at the State University of New York, admits that "this talk about the death was really the death...
...find myself in the particularly galling position of sharing a belief, as an independent thinker, with a group. The belief is the immorality of ROTC and the group is SDS. The latest move on the part of SDS has left me in a quandry. On the one hand, I support the very issues which prompted the occupation of University Hall and I feel compelled as a "supposedly" moral, rational member of our fluid society to cast my vote in favor of the removal of ROTC from its present status on campus. And yet I am paralyzed by a desire...
Positive: Mentally energetic, versatile, artistic, witty Negative: Fickle, dilettantish Career: Thinker, writer, artist
...face in attempting to heal the nation, Moynihan's guidelines could have the same durable influence in domestic affairs that George Kennan's famous containment policy memo achieved in foreign affairs. They can, in any case, be expected to further Moynihan's reputation as an unorthodox thinker with little regard for hard-liners of either liberal or conservative persuasion. But first Moynihan must last long enough in the White House basement to produce his report. "He is a very voluble guy," says a Democratic Congressman. "Nixon doesn't know what he's swallowed." Perhaps...
...Mumford is a scholar in the old-style as well--not the product of assembly line education, but a thinker without titles, whose formal education was night school at the City College of New York. Mumford calls himself a writer, but it's probably for lack of a better word. "The orthodox name is philosopher," he says, "but a philosopher today is a specialist. I loathe the very notion of expert...