Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor of Homiletics at Yale's Divinity School, the Rev. Halford E. Luccock, 68, has spent the last 25 years teaching his theological students how to preach with wisdom and, if possible, with wit. Since 1948, writing under the name of Simeon Stylites in the Christian Century, he has given his readers a weekly column of pungently good-humored religious and moral criticism. His slogan: "I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable...
...Opposed to Plato's philosophy and the Greek search for philosophic wisdom, the Jewish Pharisees clung to a law of stern, ritual purity. Each tradition, in Bruckberger's view, was deficient. But broken, then united by Christ's love, they merged to give Christianity both its traditional faith and its abstract philosophy...
Mary Magdalene, writes Bruckberger, symbolized the Christian baptism of Greek philosophy. The sensual paganism of the Greeks, he contends, was really "a deep homesickness for the first Paradise, for its innocence, for its freedom of behavior." The search for wisdom was one expression of this. Magdalene, the sinner, made the great discovery that Paradise and wisdom could be found only through God's love and forgiveness...
...could the Greeks understand any better, because for them there was no sin, there were only ugly actions, but actions which did not touch God himself . . . The Pharisees betrayed the Law itself, the first commandment of which is the love of God. And the Greeks knew not true wisdom, which is to attune one's heart with...
...university" is a guarantee of standards. It implies endorsement not of its members' views but of their capability and integrity. Every scholar has an obligation to maintain this reputation . . . His effectiveness, both as scholar and teacher, is not reduced but enhanced if he has the humility and the wisdom to recognize the fallibility of his own judgment . . . Others, both within and without the university, are as free to criticize his opinions as he is free to express them; "academic freedom" does not include freedom from criticism...