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...only seminar to make a sharp break with conventional College subject matter is David Riesman’s. Alone among seminar leaders, Riesman has rejected the Faculty’s near-pathological fear of “undisciplined thinking” and has created a program which makes the context of every fact studied as important as the fact itself. Riesman’s program has startling breadth of material, but the variety of subjects represents far more than varied interests. The seminar makes the abilities of the members the most important part of the program. And to most...
With love, life can begin, and in Brink of Life, Bergman watches three pregnant women as they attempt to achieve birth (in the context, birth may symbolize an attempted rebirth in the spiritual sense). But nothing is born, and in The Magician Bergman examines the reason for the failure-lack of faith. His magician-hero, made up to resemble Christ, has supernatural powers, but he listens to rational objections, doubts himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence...
Wide-Open Windows. In analyzing Protestant theology of the 19th century, Barth sets forth the context...
...Togetherness. Today Barth emphasizes a different aspect of divinity; instead of being "wholly other," God's deity, he feels, has meaning and power only in the context of "His dialogue with man, and thus in His togetherness with man . . . Who God is and what He is in His deity He proves and reveals not in a vacuum as a divine being-for-Himself, but precisely and authentically in the fact that He exists, speaks, and acts as the partner of man, though of course as the absolutely superior partner...
...this reason there is no private Christianity . . . Theology cannot be carried on in the private lighthouses of some sort of merely personal discoveries and opinions. It can be carried on only in the Church-it can be put to work in all its elements only in the context of the questioning and answering of the Christian community and in the rigorous service of its commission...