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...Jiri Pelikan, a former member of the deposed Dubcek government in Czechoslovakia, told a group of about 30 people in Cabot Hall last hight that contradictions between the ideals and the practice of socialism gave rise to the 1968 "Spring of Prague...
...Pelikan, a leader of the exiled socialist opposition, said that students, intellectuals and workers in Czechoslovakia united to restore these ideals during the first six months of 1968 when Czeshoslovakia attempted to democratize its political system...
When the Roman Catholic Church speaks on moral problems, Protestant Theologian Jaroslav Pelikan points out, it speaks on one of three levels: 1) natural law, which it considers applicable to all men, Christian or not, by virtue of their creation; 2) revealed law, applicable to all Christians "in a state of grace"; and 3) church law, applicable only to members of a particular church. There is little dispute left over the last two categories. Few Catholics would argue any longer that revealed law (for instance, the Christian sacrament of marriage) or church law (for instance, the celibacy of priests) should...
...wrath might well be the bureaucratization of the churches. Although one target of the Reformation was the overweening power of the Roman Curia, hardly a U.S. church exists without a frightening quota of red tape and organizational concern. "The Law of Moses may have been abrogated," glooms Yale Historian Pelikan, "but not Parkinson's." Bureaucratic business goes hand in hand with clerical direction of the churches. "It is one of the great ironies of history," says Dean F. Thomas Trotter of California's Claremont School of Theology, "that whereas Protestantism began as an anticlerical movement, by and large...
...directly to many of their current concerns. Although theologians have trouble trying to translate justification by faith into contemporary terms-a discussion of the subject at a 1963 meeting of the Lutheran World Federation broke up in total bafflement-few Protestants are prepared to repudiate it. Yale's Pelikan insists that "there is some relevance to a thought whose entire concern is how to cope with guilt, anxiety and fear...