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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vladimir Horowitz returns to the concert stage after a twelve-year absence, New York...
Protestant seminary enrollments are slightly up, but Catholic enrollments in the U.S. and elsewhere are dropping drastically. More disturbing is the departure of experienced Catholic priests. According to a conservative estimate, as many as 4,000 U.S. priests leave the formal priesthood each year. Often they include some of the ablest men in the priesthood: college presidents, heads of monasteries or religious provinces, teachers and philosophers...
...most obvious result so far is the increasing?some say overemphasized ?concentration on inner-city ministries. Unitarian Universalist churchmen have approved an experimental plan that will allow seminarians to freewheel around New York for three years, taking courses wherever they want to, living in the ghettos if they choose, learning to minister to the world principally by living in it. A larger and more structured program along similar lines is apparently working well. Last year Manhattan's onetime conservative New York Theological Seminary made a major shift in direction by choosing as its new president George W. ("Bill") Webber...
...Christ the Servant in Downers Grove, Ill., a booming residential district just west of Chicago. With the blessing of President Robert J. Marshall of the Lutheran Church in America, the Rev. Jack Lundin, 43, set up headquarters in a rickety barn and house opposite a new shopping center a year ago. "Not a church, but a community," according to its pastor, it has 160 members who have "accepted the covenant" and 100 or so more who attend with some regularity. The members are busy, but not with the usual parochial committee work. Wednesday nights, adults meet for "content" sessions...
Might not such theological concepts impel men toward social revolution? Indeed, yes. U.S. Theologian Richard Shaull says that only at the center of the revolution can we "perceive what God is doing." His fellow romanticist Rubem Alves, a 36-year-old Brazilian Protestant, thinks man must meet the liberating event of Christ's Resurrection halfway, as "cocreator" of his own destiny (a Teilhardian notion) through the processes of political revolution. Moltmann frankly admits that hope leads to revolution, declaring that the Christian community ought above all to favor the poor and the dispossessed. But both he and Alves suggest...