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Having broken all the toys in his theatrical playpen, Critic Steiner feels a twinge of remorse. He closes his book with the memory of a great tragic moment in the modern theater. It was a performance by Helene Weigel, widow of Bertolt Brecht, in Brecht's Mother Courage. Mother Courage has just been forced to look at her dead soldier son twice without permitting herself a sign of recognition: "As the body was carried off, Weigel looked the other way and tore her mouth wide open. The shape of the gesture was that of the screaming horse in Picasso...
Last fortnight the Rev. Gustave Weigel, a distinguished Jesuit theologian, backed Kennedy's interpretations in a formal statement (TIME, Oct. 10). Last week a group of 169 prominent Catholic laymen -including such ardent Democrats as Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy and Connecticut's Senator Tom Dodd, and such solid Nixon Republicans as former Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and Professor Francis G. Wilson of the University of Illinois -published a landmark "statement of religious liberty." The statement not only backed Kennedy's position that his religion could and would not compromise his actions as President, but went...
...religion, Jack Kennedy has announced that neither bishop nor Pope would tell him what to do as President. Many a Protestant has applauded his forthright words but wanted to hear Kennedy's view of Roman Catholic theology underwritten by an official Catholic spokesman. Last week the Reverend Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology at Maryland's Woodstock College, stepped forward not as an official spokesman but as a distinguished Jesuit theologian to express his views. What emerged from Father Weigel's closely reasoned speech on the church-state relationship is the fact that Jack Kennedy has not been...
...Father Weigel begins with the premise of two orders, sacral and secular, governed by divine and human law. Each is autonomous in its own sphere. Divine law concerns man's relationship to God, human law his relationship to his fellow beings. The secular order is inferior to but not subject to the sacral. Man lives in both orders simultaneously, and when they conflict, it is commonly agreed that the individual abides by the dictates of his conscience whether he be Protestant, Jew or Catholic. With this basis stated. Father Weigel turns to some implied questions by "the thinking Protestant...
...Immanuel. Disagreeing with those Catholics who "glibly say that Protestantism is emotionalism," Father Weigel insists "it has an intellectuality. It favors scholarship and has always produced it." Scientific exegesis, of scriptural texts has been "mainly a Protestant endeavor." But Protestant intellectualism, according to Father Weigel, is empirical, skeptical, relativistic, qualitatively derived from Kantian philosophy ("Immanuel Kant has rightly been called 'the Protestant Thomas Aquinas' "). Scientifically approached, God, or at least the historical Jesus, becomes "the great unknown." Argues Weigel: "There is here a despair of knowledge." Protestants evade this despair by a leap of faith powered...