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[email protected]. Prophesy, Public Theology, and Questions of Justice: Some Modest Reflections Barry Sullivan * I must confess that over the pastfew years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettableconclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride towardfreedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence ofjustice .... Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.' [Tihe Church has always had the duty of scrutinizingthe signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial questions which men ask about this present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other.