Word: ethicist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Affirmations" with a liturgy and a lunch of jug Burgundy and ham-and-cheese sandwiches. Besides Cox, the task force included Black Theologian Preston Williams of Harvard, a Chicane theologian from California, a local pastor laden with preliminary documents for the World Council of Churches assembly, and Social Ethicist Max Stackhouse of Andover Newton Theological School, who edited the various drafts of the pronouncement...
While most Catholic spokesmen have rallied behind the Quinlans, at least one Protestant, surprisingly, has come out against any court ruling in their favor. Ethicist Thomas C. Oden of New Jersey's Drew University is concerned mainly about establishing a precedent that could weaken the legal barriers against all kinds of euthanasia. That concern is discounted, however, by fellow Methodist Paul Ramsey of Princeton University, author of The Patient as Person (Yale University Press). Says Ramsey: "Everybody has reason to fear the onset of euthanasia, but it doesn't seem to me that a carefully drawn court opinion...
Vivid if not yet widely shared causes go neglected but beckon urgently again: hunger, political reform, environmental issues, inequalities and injustices, economic traumas. The "decline of absolutes" itself is often merely the result of pluralism. "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a pluralistic land?" asked Ethicist Paul Ramsey. Pluralism, the sense that "any number can play," whether in religion or ways of life, will not go away. Father John Courtney Murray called it "the human condition." Every day in every way we are aware that "your" and "my" absolutes sometimes clash. Antiabortionists and pro-abortionists...
...liberal Protestantism, had discussed the possibility of suicide with them. Some opposed it, others did nothing to discourage it. The three Van Dusen sons are known to differ on the suicide pact, but colleagues were sympathetic last week. "I think they did the right thing," said Ethicist John C. Bennett, Van Dusen's successor at Union...
...statement adds a qualifying paragraph explaining why the idea is wrong, even though it might sound beguiling and contain an element of truth. The statement nowhere mentions the people who have promulgated the false theses, but the discussions at Hartford included references to Harvey Cox (The Secular City), Situation Ethicist Joseph Fletcher and Britain's Bishop John Robinson (Honest to God). As for the pervasiveness of the thinking exemplified in the theses, Jesuit Dulles thinks that the ideas are widespread in the Roman Catholic Church, particularly among popularizers of the late Teilhard de Chardin and "liberation theologians," who give...