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...Helmut Koester, professor of New Testament Studies, Harvard Divinity School (A study of the growth and development of the so-called Gospel tradition in the second century A.D., at Harvard). Wilbert Lick, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering (Studies in the fundamental characteristics of energy transfer by radiation in conjunction with conduction and convection...
ADVERTISING a new book, The Ethics of Sex, by German Theologian Helmut Thielicke, the publishers Harper & Row call it "a new approach to the subject the whole nation is discussing." TIME'S Jan. 24 cover story-which drew on Thielicke's thought-quite obviously stimulated and sharpened that discussion. The story not only brought us a greater volume of mail than any other article we ever printed-this week's Letters column presents a second large installment of that mail-but it is being talked about in newspapers, on the air, at formal and informal campus conferences...
When sex is pursued only for pleasure, or only for gain, or even only to fill a void in society or in the soul, it becomes elusive, impersonal, ultimately disappointing. That is what Protestant Theologian Helmut Thielicke has in mind when he warns that "a dethroned god seems to be staging his comeback in a secularized world." Eros is accorded high rank today, "a rank that comes close to the deity it once had." The spiritual danger is that Eros may leave "no room for agape, which lives not by making claims but by giving...
Broken Symbols. The country has yet to develop a real pride of nationhood to lift it finally above what Theologian Helmut Thielicke calls the "paralyzing complexes" about the past. With the world's curses at Hitler still ringing in Germany's ears, says Thielicke, "we still do not feel free to use a word like Vaterland uninhibitedly for fear of being misunderstood. And because we have a complex about it, many of us are even embarrassed by our national anthem - Deutschland uber Alles, though its original meaning was simply a child's declaration of love...
...force them really to listen. "It's so faint it sounds like angels singing-and that's hell to work with," says an unhappy listener at the Muzakized Ford plant in Dearborn. "It is pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green eyeshades and sleeve garters. "The nut who complains about music is the same one who bitches about the office being...