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Rejecting Dualism. Moreover, theologians concede that modern skepticism about eternity is fully justified. Says the University of San Francisco's Jesuit Philosopher Francis J. Marien: "An afterlife that is viewed as an opiate, a kind of workmen's compensation for an ugly and painful existence, is bound to...
Strength of Reality. Whatever lies beyond, the new eschatology may make it harder for some people to face death. Says the Rev. Kevin Wall, prior of the Dominican House of Studies in Berkeley, Calif.: "Those who hold myth-convictions are better prepared to face death with equanimity. It is more...
Father Joseph Damien de Veuster has been a storm center of controversy in Hawaii for the better part of a century. A Belgian-born Roman Catholic priest seeking converts, he was greeted with hostility by Hawaii's ruling Protestant-missionary families from the moment he arrived in Honolulu in...
"The Hale statue could be anybody, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, or even House Speaker Elmer Cravalho." Asked one Protestant minister who favored the Marisol: "Would we take statues of the mutilated body of Christ out of churches and destroy them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to...
Some religious leaders are mighty hard acts to follow. What Pope, for example, would seem charismatic after John XXIII? When Harry Emerson Fosdick retired as minister of Manhattan's interdenominational, cathedral-size Riverside Church in 1946, many Christian leaders wondered how its pulpit committee could possibly find the right...