Word: augustinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Priests know that millions of married Catholics are now ignoring the rules altogether. As it happens, some competent theologians maintain that they are exactly right. Writing for the Toronto Globe & Mail, Augustinian Theologian Gregory Baum of the University of Toronto argues that since church leaders are themselves divided about contraception, lay Catholics are free to follow their own conscience on the matter, on the principle of Lex dubia non obligat (a doubtful law does not oblige). Father Baum, a peritus (adviser) at the Second Vatican Council, believes that condemnation of contraception is a matter of discipline that involves neither...
...Vatican Council has already tempered the harsh Augustinian notion that the sole purpose of marriage is procreation; the new concept is that marriage is first and foremost a "union of love...
...fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though the Christian ethic generally holds to the Augustinian belief in the "just" war. But pacifism has usually found its firmest hold only within small sects, ranging from the Anabaptists of the Reformation to the Mennonites (of 389 Americans classified as religious objectors during World War I, 138 were Mennonites) to the Society of Friends...
...great 12th century Augustinian monk, Hugh of St. Victor, explained the uniquely European religious art form that turned Gothic cathedrals into lanterns of light. Today a new generation of Christian churches (more than 3,000 in West Germany alone) has arisen. Once again artisans of stained glass have been called back into service to enliven, enrich and ennoble houses of worship (see color pages...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...