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Beleaguered though it appeared, the A.M.A. was in no mood for a radical internal overhaul. Last November, then-President Wesley Hall proposed that the A.M.A. draft an entirely new constitution. Despite speculation that the issue would at least be debated last week, it was barely mentioned. Instead, the hierarchy and the house of delegates administered verbal tranquilizers to those on both sides of several questions. While there was vocal opposition, for instance, to doctors' unions, which Hoffman thought would be improper, the delegates deferred taking any formal position on them...
This is not to say that everything here is completely unenlightening on the retrospective's subject. Two critical articles on John Wesley Harding and a final essay written especially for the anthology by Wilfrid Mellers shed some light on Dylan's musical roots, the religiosity of his music, and his development as a writer...
...irony in this development is that Dylan has not removed himself from "social consciousness," whatever that is supposed to mean, at all. He never claimed to be spokesman for a movement. "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" from John Wesley Harding is, for example, as moving a protest as "The Times They Are A-Changin'," besides being a much more spiritual work, touching--not preaching at--the listener. Dylan's switch from omniscient father to exploring child explains his words: "I was so much older then--I'm younger than that now," in an album he recorded a full eight years...
...Ensley's address, which was endorsed by all 95 bishops, said the church contains many "wistful skeptics," some of whom are clergymen. "Probably not for centuries has the witness of Christian people on ultimate questions been so hesitant and uncertain." The Articles of Religion of Methodist Founder John Wesley, for instance, stated that Jesus arose bodily from the grave. But a 1965 poll showed that only 49% of the Methodist clergy believe this any more...
...Outler commission's solution qualifies the traditional creeds-Wesley's Articles and the E.U.B. Confession of Faith-with explanatory statements warning that they should be interpreted within their historical context. The statements maintain that Wesley and the E.U.B. patriarchs made "doctrinal pluralism" a major tenet and held to only a basic core of Christian truth-but the statements stop short of specifying what that core...