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many galaxies each with a few Scientist Says Space Probes billion suns, he added. The question these discover- publication. May Change Our View of God ies raise, he said, is, "Is God big and •k A Michigan scientist raised ba a human. Others are not enough to look after all that some challenging questions for created equally." junk and me, too? Or am I reuse church people during his ap- He reported that one of every more on my own? for pearance, in Duluth, Minn., for 16 births deviates from the "Also, what kind of guy is the northern lakes faith in life norm and speculated whether God? Did he play the game of required dialogue week. some children "should have the the 'ball of clay and rib bit' or did he say, '1 am going to set . Two questions posed by Le- right not to be conceived." up the rules whereby a proton roy G. Augenstein, a biophysc- "At the moment, the most and an electron form a hydro- Permission ist, were: haphazard thing we do is to gen atom and then everything Should man "play God" and create children," he said. "What else will evolve from that?'" The answer, Augenstein ad- DFMS. learn to manipulate the heredity person would invest $30,000 to / $50,000 in a business without mitted, could make an image of of a child before the child is a less personal and less inti- conceived ? thinking? Yet a child is con-

Church mate God than many might Do recent space discoveries ceived in a moment and you wish. require that man change his must invest that much in rais- Yet, he asked, "Why did God view of God? ing him." give me a brain if he is going Episcopal Dr. Augenstein, chairman of Augenstein said one of the to look after me periodically?" the problems in controlling heredity Another question, Augenstein

of the department of biophysics at Michigan State University, in- would be to decide, "What's an said, is whether "God is a mas- dicated he feels the ultimate an- ideal man?" ter scientist who set up life of

Archives swer to both questions must be The answer to that, he sug- a variety of sorts on many "yes." gested, must lie outside the planets."

2020. Because of the population realm of science. He said he "would like to be explosion, Augenstein said it is The Michigan scientist said around for 10 years after the vital that man faces up to the science still has a long way to Russians receive the first mes- question of who he is and why go before it can manipulate sage from outerspace that ap- Copyright he is here. heredity, but he said recent pears to be intelligent and find And instead of debating experiments indicate that it will the only way they can decode it which methods of birth control be possible to do both this and is to use ancient Hebrew." are acceptable, he should be dis- to manipulate the thought con- In addition to teaching at cussing "which children should cepts held by people. Michigan State, Dr. Augenstein show up and under what condi- He said space discoveries had is an adjunct professor at San tions," he said. made many persons realize Francisco Theological Seminary, "We can now predict with that God is "incomprehensibly San Anselmo, Cal., a United considerable accuracy the de- larger" than they had imagined. Presbyterian school. fects of a child," Augenstein It is now claimed that there Another institute speaker was said. "Many children are born are at least 150 billion suns in Dr. Armin Grams, a Detroit with defects so serious that our galaxy alone, he pointed psychologist, who warned that they never know what it is to out. And it appears there are people are becoming less and

NOVEMBEB 25, 1965 Tbm less human as they are crowded couldn't care less" attitude CHURCH FACES PROBLEMS more and more into the big among people today. IN POVERTY DRIVE cities. He decried the attitude that * A warning that church in- Grams, a former University any behavior is all right "so volvement in the federal war on of Minnesota professor who now long as you don't get caught." poverty poses hazards for both is associated with an institute Too many people believe it's church and religious liberty was in Detroit which is devoted to more important to be praised sounded by the Rev. Dean M. human development and fami- than to be praise-worthy, he Kelley, director of the National ly, said there is a growing "I commented. Council of Churches' department of religious liberty. His warning came at an ecu- Churches in Critical Situation menics seminar sponsored jointly by Duquesne University Blake Tells Detroit Gathering (Catholic) and Pittsborgh The- ological Seminary (Unitet Pres- * "If American Christians to the banquet by Bishop Rich- byterian) . publication. don't come to grips with the ard S. Emrich of Michigan, and Kelley, a Methodist, remarked and gospel soon, increasingly men of present were a large representa- that the federal government ap- good will will not only reject tion of other churches. parently contemplates by-pass- reuse the church, but much more im- In business session earlier ing some city governments it for portant they will reject Jesus that day the Convention: believes ineffective in the pover- Christ and him whom he came Adopted a budget of $891,856, ty war to work with certain to earth to reveal". of which $843,856 will be ap- voluntary community groups it required Such was the statement in portioned to parishes and mis- feels can do the job better. an address by Eugene Carson sions of the Diocese, including This would mean the by- Blake, stated clerk of the United $365,933 for the General passing of duly elected officials Presbyterian Church, at the Permission Church. who can be held accountable at banquet concluding the conven- Agreed to help underwrite a the polls, he noted, for miscel- tion of the diocese of Michigan joint Roman Catholic-Protes- laneous private individuals who DFMS. held in Detroit. / tant office on race relations at are not selected or accountable Blake said that "until poverty an estimated expense of $1,000 in any official way. If these is made a moral issue in to $2,000. Presbyterians and individuals should be church- Church America and in relation to the other denominations of the De- men, the problem is com- needv peoples of the whole troit council of churches are pounded, he declared. world, Christians should not also expected to support the of- Kelley said that when church- Episcopal profess their faith, nor even fice, which is to open shortly. men, however good their inten- the humanitarian concern. Approved the recommenda- tions, become part of the politi- of "These are great days to be tion of the MRI committee that cal structure, the peril of reli- Christians — to be in a church $96,210 be raised voluntarily gious establishment arises. which is free to do what it will. among parishes and missions in Establishment of religion can Archives It will be that if you make it the next three years for speci- be defined in this instance as so". fied projects in the diocese of the grafting of religious organ- 2020. Weary of partisan politics Zambia, Central Africa. izations into the power struc- that freeze social action, he Voted to fill various offices ture of society, he explained. said "I am even wearier of The danger is heightened, he

Copyright and passed a number of revi- Christians using spiritual ex- sions in the constitution and continued, by modern ecumen- cuses that life is more than food canons, including one authoriz- ism and the possibility of a co- and clothes and shelter to justi- ing deaconesses to vote with ordinated Catholic - Protestant- fy themselves for voting sel- the clergy in any vote by orders. Jewish social program that fishly and in fear of losing their would exercise authority of own economic security or ad- government or over govern- vantage. The time has come, ORDINATION WHY BOTHER ment. "That way 'establish- it is long overdue, for this ment' lies," he cautioned. people to mobilize capital, pri- * The article on page 10 is Efforts of churches to assist vate and public, to eliminate a sermon preached at the ordi- programs of social change such poverty." nation of Edmund Campbell Jr. as the poverty program are It was to an ecumenical audi- at St. James, James Island, laudable so long as the efforts ence that Blake spoke. Invited N. C. remain voluntary and do not T'nur THE WITNESS become official, Kelley stated. government, whatever it may ALTIZER EXPLAINS He added that both the church call itself," he said, "and to that DEATH OP GOD and religious liberty will suffer extent unfits itself to be a if churchmen begin acting as church, which has, as a church, * Thomas J. Altizer, associ- "brokers of civil power." its own unique and indispens- ate professor of religion at "A church which performs able service to perform for Emory University and a leader governmental functions is to society as important as that of of a theology which has been that extent operationally a government." termed variously as "death of God" by some and "Christian atheism" by others, said that "if there is any clear portal to Fears and Frustrations of Poor the 20th century, it is a pas- sage through the death of God." Spelled-Out at Newark Panel Speaking at Duke University, he said "to cling to the Chris- * An unusual feature of an "For all that the people know tian God in our time is to evade Episcopal social relations con- that set up this (anti-poverty) publication. the human institution of our ference in Newark, was a panel program, the poor might like to century and to renounce in- and discussion by five poor people be poor . . . maybe we would evitable suffering which is its who told of their fears and like to be just left alone, some lot." reuse frustrations. of us."

for The radical Christian, he said, A concluding consensus was In summing up the panel, rejects both the literal and his- that the poor themselves must Bishop George E. Rath said the torical interpretation of the have a major voice in anti- discussion "brought us face-to- required Bible, demanding instead "a poverty programs designed to face with reality." spiritual understanding of the help them. Later a similar The Rev. Reinhart B. Gut- word." view was expressed by other mann, executive secretary of Altizer said traditional theo- Permission speakers. the national division of com- logy is of no value in today's The panel discussion took munity services, also urged that secular world and that Chris- place at the annual meeting of the poor have a major role in

DFMS. tianity can become meaningful / the diocese's social relations de- planning and running poverty gg^in only through acceptance partment, whose theme was programs. of the "death of God — the "Poverty and the Christian Con- Church "The day for paternalism is original primordial God — who science." past," he declared. The poor no longer speaks to man." Panel moderator was John must have a role "not merely "Above all," he said, "the Bell, chairman of the Jersey to satisfy their ego, but be- Episcopal radical Christian seeks a total City Congress of Racial Equali- cause . . . they have a knowl- union with the word, a union the ty and a neighborhood center of edge of themselves not general- abolishing the priestly, legalis- director in the Jersey City anti- ly shared by the middle class, tic, and dogmatic norms of the poverty program. The Negro even by those who call them- churches, so as to make possible leader told clergy and laymen at Archives selves social workers." the realization of a total re- the conference that "nobody There must be a major redemption . . . actualizing the knows how to deal with poverty 2020. distribution of power in Amer- promise of Jesus. like those who are poor." ican society, he said, and this "It is this quest for total re- Other comments from panel- is not likely to happen until demption . . . that demands the ists included the following: the poor become organized and Copyright death of the Christian God, the "Don't kick the poor because demand a larger share of au- God who is the sovereign of the they are poor, because some- thority. Lord and almighty Creator." times they have much to say to Gutmann also contended that He said man has lost the you." the churches, in spite of their sense of the sacred which "You set up a program de- traditional concern for the marked the medieval world, and signed for men, but you haven't downtrodden, have not really instead of trying to put God the slightest idea what my identified with them. Instead, back into human life, the Chris- needs are, let alone my wants." he said, the churches have been tian should welcome the total "We (the poor) are a very hampered by assumptions that secularization of the world. suspicious people; we have been social inequality follows some "As the historical world of let down by all organizations— divine pattern, or that basic Christendom sinks ever more political, social, fraternal and, human dignity depends on the deeply into the darkness of an yes, even some of the churches.'' amount of work a person does. irrevocable past, theology," he NOVEMBER 25, 1965 Fiv* said, "is faced with the choice carrying banners and posters the state for preservation or of either relapsing into a dead condemning the Vietnam war made available to Christian and archaic language or of on religious grounds picketed groups for use on special evolving a whole new form of departure sections of the Syd- speech." ney airport as Dr. Gough's plane occasions. The radical Christian, he said, prepared for take-off. Then, he added: "But, apart has created a "new language of The primate was scheduled to from actual buildings and avail- faith." spend three weeks visiting Aus- able sites, the church has a tralian soldiers in Southeast great deal of treasure hidden PROTEST ON VIETNAM Asia, including South Vietnam. away in safes, museums and GREETS ARCHBISHOP Later, he was to visit Singapore the like. Again, no one can esti- • Archbishop Hugh R. Gough and M a 1 a y a s i a, where he planned to confer with Anglican mate the value in terms of bul- cf Sydney and primate of Aus- lion alone of the plate and other tralia, left Sydney for South- clergy. east Asia amid a noisy demon- At a news conference before valuables which are never actu- stration against Australian departure, Dr. Gough said the ally in use. publication. policy in Vietnam. Australian government was try- "Should not the vast majori- and Top representatives of vari- ing to bring peace and happi- ty of these — expressly exclud- ness to the Vietnamese people. ous women's organizations ing communion vessels in reuse regular use, altar furnishings for and the like — be handed over Church of England Challenged to the state at a valuation? This required valuation might be translated To Put Vast Wealth to Work into terms of money grants for the restoring and maintain- • The Church of England of England falls appallingly Permission ing of necessary churches. was urged to survey its wealth short. Seldom was so much "There is neither sense nor as one of the nation's biggest spent to so little purpose . . . technical 'ownership' of objects DFMS. / property owners, get rid of un- "In the first place, we are, only to be seen as museum economic assets and become collectively, one of the biggest pieces."

Church just a steward and competent property holders in Britain. Hopkinson concluded: "We are so haunted by the spectres manager. But no one knows the value of our resources . . . All this mass of a property-owning aristo- The proposals were made in of diffused property — price- cracy — where it is a sin to sell Episcopal an article calculated to arouse less downtown sites, great land — and by the concept of the controversy in the Bridge, hunks of industrial areas, large a 'church geographical,' that we of monthly journal of Bishop Mer- mansions in Green Belts — are find it very hard to think of vyn Stockwood's diocese of vaguely under the eye of the the church of God in terms of Southwark, covering an area human community and not of Archives church commissioners (who look southeast of London. after the church's funds) but marble and stained glass ... The Rev. Stephan Hopkinson,

2020. in practice they are adminis- Let us use our bricks and a former director of the Indus- mortar, as good stewards trial Christian Fellowship and tered by upwards of 20,000 very local authorities in the shape should, to win a profitable re- now rector of Bobbingsworth, turn in terms of human beings." Copyright Essex, took a critical look at of parish councils, church hall committees and so on." England's Church system in a JOINT CREDIT COURSE series of articles. Hopkinson went on to sug- BEING OFFERED "Stewardship," he wrote, "is gest that a thorough survey be ecclesiastically popular. Natur- made of all this property which * Seabury-Western and Bel- ally so; it has saved many a "would certainly show a large larime School of Theology, a half-sunk ship. Good stewards number of churches and church Jesuit institution, are jointly are, however, seemingly identi- buildings which are economic- offering a course for academic fied with generous contributors; ally unsound and should be sold credit. in the Bible, they are a lot closer off." In the case of buildings The two-hour seminar on to capable managers. with sentimental associations or contemporary theology meets "By this standard of com- artistic and historic value, he one evening a week, alternat- potent management, the Church says these could be offered to ing between the two seminaries. EDITORIAL

recent world order study conference in St. Louis. Bringing Vietnam There it was recognized that some honest ob- jectives should be substituted for the raw strug- Into Your Prayers gle for power, one which is constantly obscured PRESIDENT JOHNSON, at the behest of con- by a fantastic variety of euphemisms. The con- gressional politicians, has proclaimed November ference recommended that the U. S. government 28 as a "day of dedication and prayer, honoring seek, among other things, the following condi- the men and women of South Vietnam, of the tions for the pacification of the territories of United States, and of all other countries, who Vietnam: are risking their lives to bring a just peace in "Make clear that a primary objective of such South Vietnam." a settlement is the independence of South Viet- No one will begrudge victims of a vast power nam from outside interference, with complete publication. struggle honor, pity, and sympathy. But it would liberty to determine the character of its future and not accord with honor if such concern were per- government by the result of a peaceful, free and mitted to cast a veil of piety over the brutal verified choice of its people. The choices might reuse realities of a situation which results in the vic- include whether it wishes to establish a coalition for timization and dehumanization of people involved of Nationalists and National Liberation Front, on all sides. or whether it wishes to be united with North

required A few days before President Johnson signed Vietnam (perhaps through a plebiscite) or to the proclamation Dr. Dean Rusk, the secretary of operate as an independent, neutral and non- state, reported that two additional North Viet- aligned state, or whether it wishes to join the namese regiments — the 250th and the 32nd — South East Asia Treaty Organization or be Permission had recently infiltrated into South Vietnam. aligned with the free states of southeast Asia or These were added to three regiments assertedly elsewhere."

DFMS. brought down from the north in 1964 and earlier / this year. Had the churchmen met in mid-November in- On the same day a U. S. military spokesman in stead of late-October a paragraph probably would Church Saigon affirmed what Rusk had reported. With have been added about just plain honesty. It these five regiments what is now the strength of was stated last August by the New York Herald the North Vietnamese in South Vietnam? Ac- Tribune that North Vietnam had offered to Episcopal cording to the military spokesman the total now negotiate, not once but twice — the second time the amounts to 7,500 troops! with the U.S. practically naming its own terms. of In a statement accompanying the proclamation That there had been such offers was denied in President Johnson said that it is the purpose of Washington at the time.

Archives the U. S. government to aid South Vietnamese Look magazine repeated the story in its last people "to resist unprovoked aggression". This issue in an article by Eric Sevareid about Adlai

2020. obviously begs the question: Does it require Stevenson, containing this paragraph on Viet- 160,000 American troops, in addition to several nam: hundred thousand troops controlled by the Saigon "Stevenson told me that U Thant was furious

Copyright governmental clique, to combat 7,500 foreign- (over the administration's rejections of the two Vietnamese, to be sure—aggressors? peace talk bids) ... So he (U Thant) proposed The troops of the U. S. government and the a cease fire, with a truce line . . . U Thant then Saigon clique are surely not fighting phantoms. made a remarkable proposal: U.S. officials could Who then are the hundreds of thousands against write the terms . . . and he, U Thant, would an- whom they are fighting if, according to the state nounce it in exactly those words . . . Again, so department's own claim, only 7,500 are outside Stevenson said to me, McNamara turned this Vietnamese ? They have to be South Vietnamese, down, and from Secretary Rusk there was no and if so, how are they aggressors upon their response, to Stevenson's knowledge." own soil? Robert J. McCloskey, state department official, Among people not taken in by this sort of di- now states that the offers to negotiate had been versionary propaganda were the members of the made and had been rejected. U Thant declined NOVEMBEH 25, 1965 to comment because "by virtue of his office he make a choice — a choice it has not permitted considers the conversations and discussions with in the past because it knew the outcome, under representatives of member states privileged and the 1954 Geneva agreements, would not be to its confidential." liking? When it does it will indeed be in a sound However other UN official said that the position to ask that prayers be submitted to the Sevaried account was "absolutely correct." Almighty honoring those in the conflict, since Will the U. S. government be willing to take it will then make it possible for them to achieve the risk of letting the people in South Vietnam an honorable end to aggression.

CLIMBING ON TEMPORARY BAND-WAGONS By John Peacock Editor of The Church, Farm and Town publication. REPRINTED FROM THE ANGLICAN PUBLI- and CATION DEVOTED TO ASPECTS OF CHRIS- reuse TIANITY WHICH HAVE RELEVANCE TO for FEOPLE WHO LIVE IN RURAL AREAS

required WE HAVE always been irritated by people who friends and acquaintances in an unconscious enthuse to the point of raving about people, jump to escape — to escape objective reasoning things, movements or forms, and nearly always and fear of the present. As if to prove the facts make us feel slightly inferior because we have of industrialisation and urbanisation they take Permission not read the latest information on, book by, nor firm hold of cybernation and say, "This is IT & saying of, the newest "band-wagon"! there is no escaping IT" and, furthermore, DFMS.

/ Dear friends have become near enemies simply "Rurality is out, passe!" by asking, "Isn't so-and-so TERRific?" — a The Temptation decade or so ago it was Dom Greg Dix; then it Church was adult education — which we had been en- OUR FIRST REACTION is to jump aboard too, gaged in for years! — then came group dynamics and to rush into a city, throw ourselves at the —with a variety of capital-lettered abbreviations feet of a bishop and plead, "Please give me a job Episcopal for some aspects thereof — followed closely by amongst the thousands, nay, millions, of people the who throng this great place!" This is no laugh-

of swiftly passing obsessions — French lessons; jazz masses; Bonhoeff erisms; dialogue-itis; turn- ing matter, for the temptation to flee is very about altars and various other "band wagons" great.

Archives upon which people climb for awhile in such torrid One has to do SOMEthing, or go SOMEwhere enthusiasms as to burn them up to a crisp! at temptation times, as we all know, for resistance

2020. by oneself is awfully difficult. Some turn to Within the past three years or so, an enthusi- God, "Who with every temptation makes a way asm we have clashed with is industrialism, in- of escape . . ", some go to a friend, some to a dustrialisation and side-issues thereof. It has Copyright priest, some to a bottle of alcohol and some go been proven to our satisfaction that industrialisa- to MRA and make a spectacle — some even go tion, far from destroying the rural philosophers, to a bishop. The AA groups have a wonderful has enriched and strengthened them. system by which their members may take out a Then came a bran new phrase, cybernation. little book, "Telephone Therapy" and call a fel- The phrase neatly catalogues the swiftly growing low member of AA for help. fact of automation and organization, of com- But we who are tempted to leave the rural puters and automation, together with the ap- scene, which has just about nothing left except parently irreversible trend toward a permanently nature — say our enthusiastic band-wagoners — unemployed segment of the population — the and follow the trend are foiled at every turn. Leisure Group! The small-town dweller to whom you turn says, Up onto the bandwagon have jumped many "I can't blame you if you leave . . ", the city

Eighl THB WITNESS rector to whom you apply says, "I sympathize, community responsibility"; we are pragmatic — old chap, but I can hardly use a curate who is another virtue — and, like the late President as old as I am" and the business man says, Kennedy, find out what to do in any given situa- "tough." tion and then get it done, regardless of any pre- Thus we are literally forced to be objective in urban norms; we are judged, not by what we our approach to our society. We become amateur say but by what we DO (Jesus). sociologists and, then, theologians. Within the church organization the band- The very latest band-wagon is to be found in wagoneers are already taking hold of points which a book entitled "The Secular City" by Harvey are outstanding in "The Secular City" and are Cox. Its passengers are many and variegated but making them sound like the "good old gospel". all agree that this is a must reading — for old There is ever so much of this book which is and young, laity and clergy, urban and rural. It really true and good and it is, indeed, must read- is a book which lays down authoritatively and ing for all of us so as to enable us to make a publication. with abundant proofs, apparently, the history better assessment of the ideas in our day, of which this is an important one. But, it is a

and and rules which go to make up the secular city. He does this very well and attractively. It is band-wagon! Don't climb on so much as stand

reuse small wonder that this is the latest Band-Wagon. back and try to make an assessment in a objec- for But we wish to make known that we think that tive manner. it is a band wagon and is a temporary authority, not, like the Bible, for all time! Those who are Town and Country required WE FORESEE people in authority reading, enthused ought to go off somewhere and stead- absorbing and regurgitating these theses into fastly try to resist the temptation to adopt this action such as will affect much of our rural, our thesis of the author's, attractive though it may town and country committees and boards. They Permission be, as "gospel"; they ought, indeed, retire to talk will say to themselves, "This — "This is IT." with God, a friend, an enemy, even a bishop, in a sincere effort to discover what lies behind this Thank God the authorities are not all too DFMS. / thesis and what there is for us in the rural easily taken in and we suspect that some of them church now. just do not read the latest, so that it will take quite a time, we hope, for this band-wagon to ride Church City Freedom into the center of the dioceses. In the meantime, THE DISCOVERY of new freedoms by moving however, there is a grave danger in the fact that into a technopolitan area is truly a wonderful many rural workers, priests, wives thereof and Episcopal thing — as my son who has just entered the others, will also get aboard and really believe the

of freshman year in a large, liberal arts university that for all time, everywhere, the secular city — in the heart of downtown city can avouch, — with all the implications set forth in this book — despite the fact that many who make the dis- is the normal thing, that all preurban norms

Archives covery are hindered greatly by what Harvey must go! Cox calls, "preurban norms". The glory of One of the popular band-wagons of the past 2020. anonymity, the unbondage of the vague, faceless twenty-five years is that of the rural chaps who masses and the general pervasiveness of the "no made it almost a gospel that, "soil erosion is soul one knows me, therefore — " feeling, makes for erosion" and in which we have had our share Copyright a bran new living type. We can spit on the side- of riding. The secular city has done rather a walks if there is cop in sight — we can say good job in shooting holes in this, one of its uncouth things to people as we walk by, we can ancestors, by implication rather than by a go to night "shows", we can sneak into cathedrals frontal attack and yet it is still true that both for quiet prayer and we can do ever so many sets of band-wagoneers must eat! — and drink! things simply because we want to and there is — and be clothed. little chance of being recognized or remembered The men and women in the city are much con- — we are one of many, many, many, and we are cerned with air and water pollution; with water free. shortages and with sewage disposal. They are Furthermore, we are mobile — a virtue — and worried about the fact that more and more farms need not heed the cry of preurban statusquotians are being bought up for purposes of building pro- saying, "You must have roots, you must have jects, factories, and so on. They think like this

NOVEMBEB 25, 1965 Nina simply because they needs must eat and drink thousands of people in country places and indica- in order to live! tions are that the numbers will increase as people Still Work To Do leave the technopolitan places for a new suburb in the country. EUT the secular city freedom is not the only It was wonderfully refreshing to have one's valid one. There is also the freedom of those bishop drop in to talk of the rural part of his people who, still, love the small village, town and diocese — of which 5% area was urban, 95% farm life. The portrayal of one freedom in an rural; 44% clergy rural, 56% urban; 75% con- excellent book in no way negates the other as it gregations rural, 25% urban; 35% people rural, is lived day-by-day. The church still has a tre- 65% people urban in 1963 — and to hear him mendous job to carry on in rural areas as well as say, "Really, they are of equal importance to God, in the technopolitan areas. There are still his church and the clergy and students!" publication.

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Permission A HOUSE GUEST of ours who was visiting with is the case is the cause of considerable research, us recently was thoughtful enough to send a reflection, and concern by those ecclesiastical DFMS.

/ small gift to express his thanks for our hospitali- leaders whose responsibility it is to dig up enough ty. It was a book by Charles Merrill Smith clergyman to fill all the vacant pulpits. entitled "How To Become A Bishop Without

Church "Why they should be puzzled is difficult to Being Religious." If you know of the book you understand because the explanation is obvious. are aware that it is a formula for success within The prevailing public image of the clergyman is the institutional church — details about the way not such as to make the American young people Episcopal to dress, the kind of wife to choose, the model want to be one. This is all to the credit of our the car to drive. It is a manual designed to make the of youth and speaks highly of its intelligence, am- path of the ambitious young clergyman smooth bition, and desire to do something significant in and painless on his way to the top. the world!" Archives Now I tend to be a rather analytical sort of a These words haunt me as I come here this day person, but on this occasion I spent very little to participate in an ordination ... to take part 2020. time trying to figure out why this book for this in a solemn and ancient rite by which a man re- clergyman. And so I settled down and tried to sponds to the high calling of a clergyman. We enjoy it. As I read I could not help but think of are about to do something significant here and Copyright today, this service, what we are about during we should all be well aware of it. From the hour this hour. It gave me some pause. It made me in which a man is ordained he is to all intents wonder. and purposes a different kind of person in the Easy Explanation eyes of the world. I RETURN again and again to a disturbing ob- He may not feel any different, but this will servation by Mr. Smith, satirical but painfully not alter the fact that others will look upon him to the point. "Surveys," he writes, "show that in a different way. Rightly or wrongly people American young people put the profession of will require different things of him. Others will clergy near the bottom of the list of occupations approach him in a different way then they did they would like to enter, ranking it in desirability prior to this hour. If all this escapes his notice, just a cut above undertaking. The fact that this it will become acutely apparent to him the first

Ten THE WITNESS time he walks into a barbershop where he is not he is undecided as to who or what he is in rela- known wearing his collar and meets the stares tion to his neighbor. and listens to the broken off sentence in the mid- That's not an attractive image. It is, of course, dle of a joke. incomplete. But you and I know that there is The Guild truth within it. THIS MORNING I want to borrow a term out of The Community another age and suggest to you that in the very CONSIDER the community in which he lives out highest sense of the word we are about to intro- his calling, where he practices his craft. Let us duce a man into a "guild," a guild of craftsmen, be candid and honest and admit that he finds and his craft and his art will be the priestcraft. himself ministering within a church that is today Before we induct this man into this revered and filled with much tribulation and dissention. Be- holy guild, however, we would do well to pause cause of this restlessness in our society and with- and consider what it is about and what life within the church — and I am the first to admit it in the guild entails. I want to ask you to consider may be our greatest opportunity — the clergyman with me for a few moments this way of life, this publication. is always suspect. way that fewer and fewer men are choosing, and many of whom are intelligent and ambitious and On the one hand he is accused of being a wild desire to do something significant in this world. eyed liberal who is determined to tear down all reuse Life within the guild of priests is traditionally that is loved and cherished out of the past. On for hidden by a religious aura something akin to in- the other hand he is seen by many as a tragic cense — a kind of religious smokescreen con- symbol of the status quo and only a hinderance required structed of pious words, overly sincere smiles, and and stumbling block to all that is progress. black suits. It is a guild that attracts all sorts In the midst of such a group of people he wages and conditions of men with a wide variety of an hourly battle to try and please everyone in the mixed motives, not the least of which is a desire congregation — an impossible task — or chooses Permission to live within the church and escape the realities to stand alone as the misunderstood prophet who of the world. I think this is often what we alone perceives the truth — a much more attrac-

DFMS. tive posture but an equally uncreative one. He / preachers are trying to justify when we wax so eloquently about being "in the world and not of cannot avoid the painful truth that between him- it." One of the real proofs of the Holy Spirit in self and the layman a huge gulf exists — little Church the world is the fact that so much good is accom- understanding, less communication, fearfully plished with so little. little honesty. He complains constantly that the vestry has no real understanding of the mission Episcopal Preparation of "his" parish; that they have no vision. But the NO OTHER GUILD so inadequately prepares its if they ask him where he is going — not, mind of practioners for their calling. This is not the fault you, what he is doing but where he is going — he of the man, the seminary, or the bishop. It is is usually lost for words other than ecclesiastical just a fact that three years in an academic com- cliches. Archives munity cannot sufficiently prepare a man to meet all of the complex demands that will be made There is no reason to be puzzled by the vacant 2020. upon him in a parish. Much that he is taught pulpits and the fall off in seminary applicants. prepares him admirably to speak to concerns of The causes are obvious — not nice, not pretty, certainly not meant to be discussed in a sermon a medieval church, but are woefully irrelevent to Copyright like this — but obvious. 20th century people who do not happen to talk King James English. Day in and day out he is The Ten Percent a man who seeks to offer himself to the ultimate AND YET despite all this and much, much more of all reality, Almightly God, and very quickly that you know and I have left unsaid, there con- discovers that he is immersed in the trivial. He tinue to be ordinations such as this. Yet let us is faced continually with decisions that are either not deceive ourselves even here. It is not sur- ambiguous and ultimate or childish and inconse- prising that within five years of all of the men quential. No little concern to him is how to be who have hands laid upon their heads this year, a human being and still be a faithful member of 10% will be selling, teaching, researching — busy the guild. He is well aware that how he talks in some other guild. This is an expected attri- and how he drinks and how he relaxes are the tion in any guild. What is worthy of our con- concern of many other folk than himself, and cern, however, is that within ten years, at least

NOVEMBEB 25, 1965 30% of those who continue to wear a collar will their intelligence and ambition and their desire to be ministering somewhere other than in a parish. do something significant in the world. You know this. It is common knowledge. Each Then why brother? To what purpose do we year more and more men leave institutions such do this thing today ? We bother, and a man gives as this one and in their leaving look back and call his life to God through the church today, despite it "dead." Why? all I have said and much more, because in the midst of such a world God needs men to be about The reasons is not too difficult to fathom, it is that many despair of the endless round of his business. He needs men foolish enough to business, of the parish ministry that is so often join a company reaching back to the apostles and no more than busyness—busyness that is not only farther back into ancient Israel — those men who eternally, but daily trivial and unimportant. presumptuously take off their shoes and risk They literally give up on such holy places as this, standing on holy ground and try to talk of God. places where too many bright and creative young Why? deacons and priests have surrendered their once publication. BECAUSE GOD needs priests, men who are bold fond hopes and dreams and succumbed to a peace- enough to break the bread and pour the water and ful mediocrity. They despair of those places and tell the old, old story that is neither fully where thoughtful and enthusiastic laymen are too reuse heard nor fully understood in any age. God needs often crushed by an autocratic heirarchy and for priests and he needs prophets, men who rather relegated to meaningless "church work." Such than presume to know all of God's answers see men call the parish an "anachronism," a thing of clearly enough to raise God's questions. God required the past that needs burying. needs priests and prophets and pastors, men who Daily Chores go into the halls of joy and the shadows of suf- AND LET US not forget that every man who thus fering where they have no business going save

Permission despairs of the ordained ministry and of her on their Father's business, men who are aware of institutions once had a day such as this day — a their own failures and hurts and who struggle day when he too dreamed of his life making a by word or look or a touch of the hand to say DFMS. / difference. He is a man who often did not realize that no man need suffer alone. until it was too late that the community does not God needs priests and prophets and pastors,

Church automatically look upon him as their leader, as but underneath it all God needs a person, one who an essential part of the power structure of the is willing to commend himself to the world not world. In a confused and troubled world where because of his righteousness or virtue or intellect

Episcopal he senses some of the needs and has an inkling or skills, but simply because he too knows the

the of some answers he finds himself as a member of meaning of brokenness and yet has a sense of of a guild of priests called to stand before his altar, God's power despite it. carry on the daily chores of the parish, and face True Freedom the awful truth that as he prays the great deci- Archives HE NEEDS men who have, if ever so slightly, sions of his time are being made elsewhere by tested the freedom that comes with having met 2020. other people, that his destiny will be plotted in Jesus, and because of that meeting know that rooms where he is neither welcomed nor wanted. true freedom and real manhood is not won by He is plagued by the fact that more often than anything he can accomplish or do, but because of Copyright not when he speaks few listen. He is, in essence, who his Father is. God needs such men — those dramatically ineffective. who have the faith to see the ugliness and shame An Image and bitterness that are among us and within us, I SAY to you more than an "image." I submit to in our streets and in our parishes, and yet know you, after seven years as a priest, that it is the that in the darknesss that surrounds us and picture of a man—part of me and scores like me. towards which we each travel hides the out- It is a story that can be told again and again and stretched hand of a loving God. again. If you disagree I am glad; you perceive That's why we bother. That's why we're here, more deeply than I do. I am happy for you. To simply because God has so ordered the world and me it is not surprising at all that American youth so created his church that he needs poor and does not pine to stand here on such a day as this. fumbling and inadequate people like us to be For my money it is in many ways a credit to about his business in a world he loves.

Twelve TUB WITNVSJ them a shot of adreniline. Suddenly they were A Hard Night's Day communicating actors, spontaneously expressing By William B. Spofford, Jr. what they were feeling and what they were Dean, St. Michael's Cathedral Boise, Idaho dreaming. And, for ten minutes, we beheld com- mitted artists doing what they wanted to do, and IN THE BEATLES' first film, entitled A Hard be, more than anything in the world. Day's Night, there is a poetic and graceful scene Immediately afterward, we went to the cathe- in which the Liverpudlians cavort around an dral and they became Paton's wonderful char- athleic field full of joi de vivre. As directed, it acters—Stephen Kumalo, Arthur Jarvis, the Rev. came out as a ballet in enthusiasm and vivacity. Mstumongo and all the rest. In an hour and a Recently, four members of the Bishops' Com- half, they managed to express more about MRI pany came to the cathedral to put on Alan Pa- than our department of world mission had been ton's Cry, the Beloved Country as a benefit for able to state in two years of sending out bulletins our MRI responsibilities to Matabeleland in and making speeches. Southern Rhodesia. We took our four strolling A post-drama discussion in the deanery added publication. players down to our local Little Theater which one more dream to the many that they had. It and had its stage set for the current production of wasn't a bad idea . . . and we commend it to either Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. The theater was the ecumenical forces or a single denomination. reuse dimly lit in the gathering dusk and the back wall The Episcopal Church, for one, might think of it for was painted to show the Imperial Valley in Cal- seriously. ifornia and, on the stage, there were six rocks The idea was that, somewhere in this vast land and a tree. required of ours, there ought to be a Christian repertory To excited crys and joyous peeps, the three theater, dedicated to helping people write, pro- men and a girl, who had been traveling across duce and act plays of significance, which could the northwest in a V.A. bus and staging their lift out the moral dilemmas and critical oppor- Permission repertoire in chancels, parish halls and sundry tunities of our time. This would be a spot where buildings of assorted sizes, began a dance-like all sorts of persons could come and spend time

DFMS. activity reminiscent of the Beatles' prancing in learning to communicate through the art of / the film. Each of the company were young and drama and its affiliated activities. There are each was dedicated to the art of the theater. To already a legion of plays which do not get pro- Church them, the stage was a piece of potental life. One duced or seen. There are other plays to be member dashed to view the tree; another began written. to quote a soliloquy of King Lear, another twirled Our society, through its political leaders, is Episcopal in a spontaneous dance and the last stood trans- now encouraging stimulation of the arts. On the fixed. Here, they seemed to say, was some- some conference center or camp ground, close to of thing to "do with" by which they could commu- a metropolitan area, the church might get in the nicate that which they believed and with which act by developing a theater work-shop and pro-

Archives they could reach out to God's world. duction center. Each of these players had a future in mind. Ibsen, Shaw, Fry, Gheon, Aristophanes . . . the

2020. The leader of the troupe, who had been a South- list is endless. And what a way it would be to ern Baptist evangelist who suddenly had begun spend that month's vacation!!! to read Paul Tournier's works, wanted to form

Copyright a company of "clowns" to do improvisations and intimate dialogues. The girl member wanted to express herself as a singer, preferably of the folk variety. The third wanted to split his time be- We Try Harder tween the theater and the civil rights movement. By Corwin C. Roach His stay in a southern jail on various demonstra- Director, North Dakota School of Religion, Fargo tions had turned him into an evangelist. And the fourth, quiet and young, dreamt of forming a I WAS WAITING between planes in one of our childrens' theater in the San Francisco bay area airports and I spent my time looking at the ad- so that neighborhoods of that metropolis might vertising signs. There was one from a car-rental know something of the art of drama. agency which set me thinking. In many ways the The sight of an open and unused stage was to airport and the modern methods of transportation

NOVEMBEB 25, 1965 Thirteen it represents are symbols of our contemporary about a car I have rented? Thielicke raises the culture. If we are to communicate with the question in his book of sermons on Genesis "How world of our day, we must adopt its symbols and the World Began", using this same figure of a its strategy. It seems to me that the church borrowed car as a symbol of the life we have takes so long in setting up a symbolism that by from God. When we return to the Agency to the time it is ready to use it, the world has out- square accounts we shall have to answer for the grown it and a new one is needed. What does a way we have treated God's loan to us, the dam- shepherd mean to a city boy or to a cowpuncher age it has received at our hands. for that matter? There is no overall comprehensive policy I can The children of this world whether they are take out that will cover this risk. Baptism or selling soap or soup see to it that the picture on church membership in itself is no insurance the carton is kept up-to-date. They got rid of against the demands of God. Even tithing will the mule team from the borax wrapper, the not take care of it. But the qualities that make a good driver make a good Christian. Knowledge

publication. housewife from the can of cleanser, etc. The children of light should be just as wise in their of what you are doing, alertness, the capacity to and generation but they never seem to be. We can meet an emergency, consideration and concern reuse achieve "the harmless as doves" bit. Indeed we for the other person, obeying the rules of the for are usually quite innocuous and ineffective, but road, trying harder, trying a lot harder. In spite "the wise as serpents" seems to be beyond our of every precaution, accidents will happen to a

required powers. We cannot match the herpetological car. Tragedy and disaster will come to the Chris- acumen of Madison Avenue. tian. No policy, no procedure is sure proof. Certainly the church is running a very poor Yet the answer is not to take the car back to second best in our modern culture. But the rental the agency. That is like the man who buried his Permission agency who admits its second place also had a talent in the ground. We have a trip to make. bowl of pins with the caption "We try harder" We must be on our way. God has given us our DFMS.

/ and I felt I would like to take the whole bowl. I life. We must live it wisely and well. If we do might well pin one beneath my clerical collar. I not, the fault is with ourselves and not the know that I should try harder at this business of agency which has furnished us the instrument of Church communication. I could sweep out a whole lot human living. It is we in this case that must try of cliches. I could tune up my all around per- harder not the agency. But this is always our formance as a Christian and cut down on my tendency. If anything goes wrong with the jour- Episcopal exhaust. Then I could pass a few along to my ney of life we blame everyone except ourself. the fellow Episcopalians. Every priest at ordination Let us try harder, live life to the utmost and of could have one pinned to his stole and a bishop then whatever the result, the Divine Agency will might rate a whole row. indeed take us back. Whatever scratches and

Archives In most places the Episcopal Church is not scars we have acquired, whatever the imperfec- running even second. Fifth or sixth would be tions, these will be accepted within the terms of

2020. more like it. We all need to try harder as indi- the policy. We have an Adjuster who will take viduals, as a church. Couldn't we boil down MRI over. There is a forgiveness clause to which we and all the impressive pronouncements made in may appeal.

Copyright its name to this simple command? Just "try harder". Then there was an added announcement of that car agency that really interested me. For a dol- About the lar a day I could insure that rental car against any possible damage that might occur to it while Holy Communion in my possession. No matter what happened, I By Massey H. Shepherd Jr. could return it to the agency and come out scot Professor at Church Divinity School of the Pacific free at least financially. It seemed like a good bargain, knowing all the hazards of driving 25l each $2.00 for ten today. THE WITNESS But am I as concerned about myself as I am Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657

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Episcopal of Birkenhead. Bishop Strutt With its guidance you can have lins of St. Paul's Cathedral, effective daily devotions in your the succeeded Bishop B. H. Saun- London. of ders-Davies, who retired in home. No reason was given for the September, but Bishop Mercer is We urge you and your family to the first bishop of Birkenhead expulsion order which was de- take time out for God. Why not livered by two detectives who Archives as this suffragan see was only start family worship with the created this year. called on Mrs. Collins as she January-February number of THE visited relatives. She was given UPPER ROOM and make daily devo- 2020. five days to leave the country. tions a new year's resolution for CAN'T GET CHILDREN your family? IN WHITE SCHOOLS Mrs. Collins had been in South Africa for several weeks THE UPPER ROOM costs only 10tf per

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NOVEMBEB 25, 1965 tivity of the Holy Spirit. But it is rent titles suggest, intellectual "an- due, also, to a failure to recognize swers" to questions asked, and very what the doctrine of the Incarnation often, never asked. Dr. Simcox calls - NEW BOOKS - means — that God in Christ has upon us to approach and meet Christ E. John Mohr genuinely embraced and sanctified "in the heart-dimension." Midway in this world, and that we who are in the book the author speaks of two Book Editor Christ must, as did he, do the same. approaches to Christ, that of Nico- Actually, people today are far more demus and Zacchaeus. "Nicodemus REDEMPTION AND HISTORICAL concerned — and rightly so — with seems strangely modern in his ap- REALITY, by Isaac C. Rotten- the present than with what we call proach. He comes to Jesus seeking berg. Westminster. $6. the Christian hope. What now is answers to questions rather than How should we as Christians view the meaning of my life, and the satisfactions of hungers; and he goes the world in which we live? Should meaning of that total context — away empty .... he assumes that we embrace it with joy? Should we "history" •—• of which my life is an spiritual hungers are intellectual look upon it with suspicion? Should integral part? — this is what people problems, so he asks for the 'an- we seek, as far as possible, to with- are asking. And the gospel of the swers' rather than for food or drink. draw, to shield ourselves from it? Incarnation has the answer. There His is the wrong way." These are the questions with which is, that is, a specifically Christian To ask for "answers" is certainly this book by an ordained minister of understanding of history. But we a legitimate way as long as it is not have been lamentably slow in recog- the primary or only way. This re- the Reformed Church in America, is nizing this fact — and this is tragic, publication. concerned. Is there, in other words, viewer, after more than thirty years' such a thing as a specific Christian for the problem of history is one of experience in the pastoral ministry, and "philosophy" or "doctrine" of his- the major challenges which face the would insist that people hunger for church today. the assurance that there is a God tory? Or, to use the author's more Such, then, have been some of this reuse academic manner of speaking, how who cares, that life is worth the does redemption affect historical reader's thoughts as he turned the living, and that Christ can make it for existence? pages of this volume, some of the so. Most of us are rather like This study does not purport to be implications underlying the often- Zacchaeus, in that we long to be times fruitful speculations of those accepted "as a man and a child of an original contribution. It is, thinkers whom the author has required rather, a competent summary of the God". "He looks to Jesus for this chosen to consider. And surely those acceptance and he gets it." thoughts and answers of those who who sense the essential unity of in more recent years have been God's universe, and the essential To use the language of another concerned with the problem of his- unity of man's total experience day, this is a book about "the spir- tory. Heidegger, Troeltsch, Barth, itual life", about the things of the Permission thereof, are on the right track — Brunner, Dawson, Danielou, Thils, those, that is, who seek to erase such spirit, sin, fear, alienation ("orphan- Pittenger, Van Ruler — these are man-made dichotomies as historie vs. hood"), Christ, salvation, prayer, but a few of those — and the list grace and growth, old age and death.

DFMS. Geschichte, secular vs. religious, the / underlines the ecumenical scope of natural vs. the supernatural, pro- Quite in line with what is being the book — whose views are con- fane history vs. sacred history. said by so many today the author sidered. The section on Bultmann insists that the spiritual life begins incidentally is especially readable as It is not apart from, but in and Church through that total stuff of human as we "come to know God's loving are the all too brief pages on Kierke- concern for us through, and only gaard. existence which we term "history" that God makes himself known. It through, the imperfect and faulty This reader could not but wonder loving concern of some people for if the author himself were fully is not through disengagement, but

Episcopal us." A dying derelict once said to aware of the importance of the by a courageous embracing of every here-and-now moment that we shall an old priest in New York, "I know the question with which this survey is that God loves me, Father, because of concerned. So many factors today know ultimately reality. Is this not contribute to a widespread confu- what the doctrine of the Incarnation sion as to the meaning and purpose — the eternal Logos of God en- of daily existence. fleshed — is all about? And is this Archives One, of course, is the bewildering not the significance of 1 John 4:20 speed of scientific progress. Another and Matthew 25:31-46? Marriage Today This book should stimulate the 2020. is the upheavals of two world wars, By Albert Reissner and our inability to fashion a thinking of all who read it. genuine peace. Nor, to be brutally O. SYDNEY BARR frank, has the Christian church Dr. Barr is Professor of New Testament, General Theological Sem- Psychoanalyst of Brooklyn, Copyright faced up to the contemporary world with the adequacy of which she is inary, New York City, and author of N. Y. delivered a lecture on "From, the Apostles' Faith to the capable. Still too much in too many marriage at Trinity Church, pulpits we are, on the one hand, Apostles' Creed", Oxford University preaching a "pie-in-the-sky" reli- Press. New York. This lecture is gion — are you hungry? no matter, now available as a leaflet man does not live by bread alone! LIVING THE LOVE OF GOD, Re- flections upon the Knowledge and is being used by clergy — and on the other a pious disen- in marriage counselling. gagement from the world as an and Love of God, by Carol E. exclusive "saved" people, thereby Simcox. Morehouse-Barlow. $3.75 fostering an essentially negative and This is a book heartily to be wel- escapist attitude vis a vis the reali- comed, and for three reasons: that 25c each for ten ties of the 1960s. it makes its appearance now, for In part, as Rottenberg is aware, what it says, and how it says it. THE WITNESS this is due to the church's lack of We have been amply supplied of late Tunkhannock understanding or conviction — per- with "soundings", "objections", pleas Pennsylvania 18657 haps both — with regard to the ac- for "honesty" and "candor", as cur-

Eigfiteen THE WITNESS I know that you do." We may "put freedom, nurtures his humility be- THE PERSONS WE TEACH, by away childish things", but child- fore the facts, and deepens his Harry G. Goodykoontz. West- likeness is an abiding characteristic affirmation of life. minster. $4.50 of the Christian's relationship to In a concluding chapter Bloy as- The title of this book is misleading God. serts that the mission of Christians unless one realizes that an under- This is a realistic presentation of is to discover, celebrate, and partici- standing of theology is essential for the Christian life. It squares with pate in the manifestations of grace the understanding of the person. the world as we find it. It faces the in human life today. Christians de- The author, a professor at the Louis- facts. It presents a religion that velop and sustain their vision life ville Presbyterian Seminary, begins brings not "peace of mind" but peace by focussing on Jesus in public with the theological context of Chris- that passeth human understanding. worship. tian education: man's nobility and It sees grief, pain, evil and suffering depravity, the imago Dei, original for what they are, neither pleasant Being a powerful prophetic work, this book lacks the balance which sin and sins, the reconciliation nor ennobling, except as they are through Jesus Christ, sanctification, seen and met in the life of faith. would be required in a more thorough treatment, but the imbalance is cer- the new man in Christ, and God's This is a source-book of meditation forgiveness and grace. His exposi- and preaching. It is more than that, tainly on the side needing emphasis today. In accord with current the- tion is excellent with superb illus- for it brings the comforting certain- trations from literature. He then ty that Christ is the way, the truth, ological fashion the word "God" is barely mentioned. The terms "grace" discusses the nature of the self as and the life. being and becoming, the importance publication. and "power of life" are left some- — LESLIE J. A. LANG what vague and mysterious, and one of the individual, learning theory, and Dr. Lang is Vicar, Chapel of the wonders about the relation of and finally the nature of the per- Intercession, Trinity Parish, New "grace" and "Jesus" to "God". It is sonality at various age levels. Al- York City. though he must rely on psychological reuse not only the existentialist theologians who are dubious about the theories in the latter section, his use for THE CRISIS OF CULTURAL gracefulness of technology but also of sources is discriminating, and he CHANGE, by Myron B. Bloy, many of the tough-minded pragma- successfully integrates the theologi- Jr. Seabury. $3.95 tic social analysts whom the author cal findings of the first section. required admires. Since according to the au- This book is excellent as a primer The Episcopal chaplain at M. I. T. thor grace and authentic life are in Christian education and is recom- has written a vigorous and prophetic manifest more clearly outside the mended as a first book for teachers. analysis of the calling of Christians church than inside, the pragmatic Most other books in the field would in an age of pervasive cultural response — "Jesus' outlook is prag- then serve as commentaries on one Permission change. His thesis is that the im- matic" — would seem to be obvious. or more aspects introduced in this pact of technology has caused a Furthermore, since the "power of book. crisis in modern man's self-identity, life and grace is already bending — LEE A. BELFORD

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/ history to its true end, carrying man- an image of identity which can lead kind into its adulthood . . .", and partment of religious education of men to maturity. since the characteristics of Jesus' New York University. The main characteristics of the life —• wholeness, freedom, and af- Church norm of Christian self-identity in firmation of life — seem to be part Jesus are his wholeness or integrity, of the accepted consensus of western ZIP! ZIP! ZIP! his freedom, especially his being for humanism, the significance and others, and his joyful affirmation relevance of Christian faith is not Post Office Rules require all Episcopal of life. The power of life or grace at all clear. In fact this book may stencils to carry Zip Code on a the which is revealed in the person of seem to the outsider to be a rather of Jesus is manifest not only among desperate salvage operation. Yet given date. In making an his disciples but throughout the this insider can testify that it is in address change or in renewing creation. Christians are called to fact a moving and incisive challenge identify and celebrate the mani- which the church seriously needs. please add your number. Archives festations of this power of grace in the world. But this calling is in- — OWEN C. THOMAS THE WITNESS hibited by various attitudes of the Dr. Thomas is assistant professor 2020. church today. Theological imperial- of theology, Episcopal Theological Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 ism, which forces the present into School. past forms, and privatization of Christianity, which simply adds re- Copyright ligious decoration to the status quo, both avoid the challenge of the present. A REPLY TO THE RIGHT The two best chapters in the book BY BURKE RIVERS treat the perception of the power of Rector of St. Stephen's, WUkes-Barre, Pa. grace in the modern world, especially in the realm of politics and eco- A letter addressed to a good friend who has been sending the nomics, in the racial struggle, and in technology. Mr. Bloy makes good author clippings and quotes from various publication of the use here of his broad knowledge of radical right. Among them was an editorial by David Lawrence contemporary social analysis and literature — he holds a graduate degree in the latter. There is a valuable critique of the existential- Reprints Are Now Available at ist attack on technology. The author $6 for 100; $3.50 for 50; $1 for ten; 25^ for a single copy. maintains in opposition to this at- THE WITNESS TUNKHANNOCK, PA. 18657 tack that technology enhances man's Schools of the Church

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