Word: saying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand, laymen of every faith are declaring their independence by shaping their own personal ethics; on the other, they are demanding that the clergy, who ought to have the answers, somehow solve all the urgent and increasingly complex moral, technological and political issues that face society. Some say that the task is impossible and simply dismiss it; others have decided, like Hollander, that the only answer is broadly based training that equips a churchman to comprehend the clamorous needs of today's world. Like their counterparts in secular universities, seminarians do not always recommend the wisest changes for the long...
...most obvious result so far is the increasing?some say overemphasized ?concentration on inner-city ministries. Unitarian Universalist churchmen have approved an experimental plan that will allow seminarians to freewheel around New York for three years, taking courses wherever they want to, living in the ghettos if they choose, learning to minister to the world principally by living in it. A larger and more structured program along similar lines is apparently working well. Last year Manhattan's onetime conservative New York Theological Seminary made a major shift in direction by choosing as its new president George W. ("Bill") Webber...
...Nietzsche had coined the phrase in the 19th century, but it was Altizer, the Christian atheist, who gave it new currency. The God of the Bible had died in Jesus Christ, he said, and lived on in the world only in man. There was not much more to say. It was the task of others to effect a resurrection...
Such a personal theology would naturally tend to blur the boundaries of denomination and discipline. It would lead creative theologians into increasing exploration not only into other faiths but also into other disciplines: anthropology, sociology, psychology-to say nothing of the physical sciences...
...York City, says Fantus President Leonard Yaseen, is just no place to work. Yaseen gives it a low rating for reasons as varied as crime, air pollution, strikes, employees' attitudes toward work and operating costs. He cites high and rising city income and occupancy taxes, as well as office rents of up to $15 a square foot in midtown Manhattan v. $7 in the suburbs. Clerical workers commonly put in only 35 hours a week in Manhattan v. 40 in some nearby towns, and their turnover rate averages 34% a year, against 15% in Stamford, Conn. Worst...