Word: tubingen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last April, a summons to appear in Rome was issued to Swiss Theologian Hans Küng of Tubingen University, who has so far refused to accept the invitation until the Vatican accepts his conditions. One is that Küng be allowed to see the dossier of charges against him; Rome refuses...
Among the most impatient and influential advocates of greater freedom in the Catholic Church is Hans Küng, 39, Swiss-born priest and professor of theology at West Germany's Tubingen University. One of the officially invited theological advisers at Vatican II, Küng has earned both liberal praise and conservative censure for his provocative criticisms of his church. Last week, wearing his usual necktie instead of a Roman collar, Küng arrived in the U.S. for his first extended visit in five years. An enthusiastic ecumenist, he will teach courses in divine justification...
...exude a confidence in the mechanical world and at the same time, from certain oblique angles, suddenly open up all manner of allusions to nature. With success, their concepts and commissions have grown steadily bigger. "Using our welding technique," says Brigitte, "there is no limit." For Germany's Tubingen University, they are now putting the finishing touches on a 49-ft.-long commission, their largest to date. Says Martin: "We want people to be able to enjoy our sculpture-not with their eyes alone, but to be able to walk through them, and feel an enveloping physical experience...
German Theologian Gerhard Ebeling of Tubingen University finds an arrow pointing the way to God in the problem in language. A word, he suggests, is not merely a means of conveying information; it is also a symbol of man's power over nature and of his basic impotence: one man cannot speak except to another, and language itself possesses a power that eludes his mastery of it. God, he proposes, is the source of the mystery hidden in language, or, as he obscurely puts it, "the basic situation of man as word-situation...
Copper Blue Blood. While Professor Ernst Bayer of Tubingen University was still a graduate student, he began to study the ability of marine animals to concentrate some of the rare metals found in sea water. The sea squirt, Phallusia mamillata, for example, has 1,000,000 times more vanadium in its blood than the water it lives in; the deep blue blood of the octopus has 100,000 times as much copper. If sea squirts and octopuses can do the trick, asked Bayer, why shouldn't human chemists...