Word: rethinking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, six major faculty groups had backed resolutions calling on the C.U. administration to rethink its notions of academic freedom. "Now all this is out in the open." says one faculty man. "The trustees cannot bypass the situation as it exists." Rector McDonald himself i gave a sign that all the protest was having j a telling effect. He announced the appearance at Catholic University next month of a timely guest speaker: Augustin Cardinal Bea, a towering liberal at the Vatican Council. Bea's topic: ''Academic Research and Ecumenicism...
Much of the conservative suspicion of Rahner stems from his Socratic approach -he keeps relentlessly asking questions, dangerous, thought-prodding questions. Rahner believes that each generation must rethink the problems of theology for itself. He never rejects outright the dogmatic definitions of past councils or Popes, but he is constantly asking what the words of those definitions really mean. "The theologian of today," he says, "must be in search of a new language. We've got a lot of things to rethink. A holy boldness is needed...
...theological system; he is important because of his varied Christian insights, including above all the view that the Christian must not withdraw from the world, but must live in it fully, with his faith. In the words of a new book* about Bonhoeffer, he "challenged the church to rethink its own mission to the radically secular world of the 20th century...