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COURIER-POST, Camden, N. Thursday, Morch 4, 1965 Cancer Aide Gtes Goal Of Crusade Today may be the day (hat tome you're looking for Is in half of those who develop can Mrs. George P. Smires, era Religion in America Protestantism Headed for Clash Gasslfied. Look now and see! sade chairman of the Camden cer, but, because of lack of action on the part of people who do not know facts about the disease, we County chapter, American Can cer Society, pointed out today that "Tell Your Neighbor" will be the are saving only one out of three.

"To achieve our potential, vast i emphasized aspect of its forth about the importance of taking proper precautionary action against death from cancer. We certainly can do no less." Pine Hill Girl to Vie In Poetry Contest NEWARK Helen Whiting of 74 W. Jhird Pine Hill, will represent Overbrook Regional High School in the 27th annual poetry coming April educational and educational, service and pursua-sive efforts must be employed." fund raising campaign. nnn "This means," she said, "that our volunteer crusaders will do The chairman declared that "an annual health checkup for every adult would have a tremendous effect on reducing the death rate ft the name vsS dCINELLI'Su their best to reach every neigh bor's home with leaflets giving life-saving facts about cancer and about the Society's programs of hstt iitrMrt tvtiitrvfiiAft reading contest at Rutgers Newark College of Arts and Sciences Sat -mmtf discriminating dinersjl education, research and service to cancer patients." Mrs. Smires stated further that Miss Whiting, a junior, will read "Auguries of Innocence," by Wil DELAWAnt Xw TTJT? t-it 4r0M from cancer.

Too many people today unnecessarily become fatal victims of cancer. They are stricken and die because they simply did not take sensible precautions." "The 'Tell Your Neighbor' phase of the crusade can strike a real blow at cancer," Mrs. Smires added. "It will therefore be our aim liam Blake. She will compete with students from 90 New Jersey secondary schools in the largest turnout in the history of the event.

the society is faced with a big challenge. "We must get to our neighbors and tell them that 48 million Americans now living will be stricken with cancer if present rates continue. Wre must try to FOR A during the crusade to try to tell let folks in our neighborhoods FRIDAY TREAT Luncheon Dinner If you demand accurate, dependable, objective reporting read the Courier-Post averv day. every adult in Camden County know we could now save one- By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Protestantism is heading into the sharpest theological controversy since the Fundamentalist-Modernist clash of the 1920s. The issue is whether the Christian message needs to be radically recast to make it plausible to modem man.

Among those calling for drastic overhaul of the conceptual package in which the gospel is presented are theologians Rudolf Bultmann in Germany and Paul Tillich in the United States. Their views have been given wide circulation by English Bishop John A. T. Robinson in his book, "Honest To God," and Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of California in his book, "A Time for Christian Candor." Traditional Beliefs Robinson' contends many educated people today reject Christianity "because they cannot accept certain traditional beliefs which were really the envelope in which the message was sent, rather than the message itself." Pike agrees.

"The most formidable roadblock to understanding and acceptance of Christianity," he says, "has been erected by the church itself in its refusal to abandon concepts, words, images and myths developed in past centuries when men were operating under different world- c-f XnaI r- ir rresn oeaiouu vy gartrom every Port of the Worlds; PAUL R. JONES Scholars List Tour Overseas leaders would argue with that objective. The point in dispute is how far the church can go in "re-stating" the gospel before it finds itself offering something besides authentic Christianity. Bishop States Concern This concern was forcibly stated by the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Rt. Rev.

John E. Hines, in his inagural sermon at Washington Cathedral on Jan. 27: "Let us be certain of one thing," he said. "A recasting of the message means relevant re-interpretation of God's self-revelation and NOT the substitution of something different. No matter how critical the problem of communicating with 'modern the church mast not dilute her God-revealed tradition." The Bultmann Tillich Robinson-Pike school is not in agreement on which parts of the New Testament are to be retained as "kernel" and which may be jetr tisoned as out-of-date "husk." But there is a tacit understanding among most of the re-interpreters that any biblical account of a physical miracle must automatically be labeled mythical.

Even the supreme miracle which gave birth to the church the resurrection is regarded as a subjective experience of the disciples rather than an objective historical event. 'Ground of Being' There also is a general tendency to move away from the concept of a personal God toward more abstract and impersonal terminology, such as Til-lich's "Ground of Being." The "new theology" remains UtNMAKN bKUUrv IrXUUI MARYI ANn f.RARMFAT JX. MAINE LOBSTER AFRICAN LOBSTER TAILS Ground of is revealed to men uniquely and supremely in the life of Jesus Christ But this belief is often expressed In language which suggests Jesus was a man who was so good and unselfish that God's love shone through his humanity, rather than in Biblical terms of the Word of God becoming flesh and dwelling among men. Critics say that the "new theology" isn't really new. What Bishops Robinson and Pike have done is to start a public debate on ideas which theologians have been discussing more than 30 years, and which today are regarded as old hat in the German universities where they originated.

Even Bultmann's own disciples Gunther Bornkamm, Ernst Kasemann, and others now are saying their master went too far in his attempt to "demythologize" the New Testament and that he needlessly abandoned many things which are both historically credible and essential to Christian faith. Dr. Barth Speaks Out The giant of Europeon theology. Dr. Karl Barth, makes no secret of his feeling that the demythologizers have thrown out the baby with the bath water.

In trying to make Christianity plausible to skeptics, they have succeeded only in making it meaningless, Barth says. There may be no scandal in a "modernized" Christianity which has no place for a personal God, an incarnation or a resurrection; but there's not much hope in it, either. On this side of the Atlantic, also, theologians and church leaders are beginning to voice concern about attempts to reduce the Christian gospel to an inoffensive proclamation that Jesus was a nice man. Dr. John C.

Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary In New York an institution famed for its liberal traditionhas warned that excessive skepticism threatens to "make a shambles of Protestant theology." "It is one thing to be skeptical of particular philosophical arguments and speculations," said Dr. Bennett. "But it is another thing to try to develop a the NEW ORLEANS SHRIMP Four school superintendents from South Jersey will participate in a tour of Europe, including Russia, by 36 American educators which will be directed by a NEW ENGLAND FLOUNDER FLORIDA RED SNAPPER Moorestown man. FROG LEGS Paul R. Jones of 1 Prospect who served as a superin tendent of schools for 35 years before his retirement from the Cherry Hill system, was a mem ber of a group which took a sin views and different philosophi ilar tour in 1961.

As director of CINELLI'S cal structures." The solution, says the Califor the tour which begins March 19, COUNTRY HOUSE NOrmandy 2-505ff 2-5051 he will orient members on the importance of cities visited and nia bishop, is to "rethink and restate the unchanging gospel in terms which are relevant to LCHERRY HILL, N.wJ.ri.yi conduct seminars. Diners Am. Express The itinerary will include Ber open tvery Day our day and meaningful to the people we would have hear it." "Mommies and Daddies sleep better when they know their families have BLUE CROSS and BLUE SHIELD Christian at least in the sense of asserting that God (or "The lin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lenin grad, Moscow, Trilisi, Kiev, Few theologians or church Vienna, Warsaw, Prague and will conclude in New York April 21 AMERICA'S LARGEST FAMILY CLOTHING CHAIN a iwrmiim ii i mil i nvw'ii i Local school superintendents participating will include Dr. Carl W. Hassel of Moorestown, Arthur T.

Claffee of Cinnaminson, Cal- bert D. Welliver of Pennsville, and Victor J. Podesta of Vine-land. The tour is being sponsored by the American Assn. of School Administrators.

During the trip, attention will be focused on the Soviet educa tional system with visits to vari ous types of schools and observa tions of parents' committees, which correspond to the Parent Teacher organizations of the United States. Parkivay Interchange To Be Closed ology while ignoring faith in God as our creator and redeemer." 'Pseudo-SophIsticates, Dr. Roland Mushat Frye, writing in the scholarly journal "Theology Today," said that the greatest threat to contemporary Christianity comes from "pseudo-sophistioates" within the church who are so eager to accommodate the gospel to the presuppositions of modern culture that they have emptied it of all "distinctively Christian content." From a local pastor, Rev. Norman R. DePuy of the First Baptist Church of Moorestown, comes a similar protest in more SOMERS POINT Northbound exit and southbound entrance ramps of the Garden State Park way Interchange 30 at Laurel will be closed permanently Mon day.

The Interchange is to be recon structed with a 15-cent toll plaza installed at the two ramps. Mean while, access to the parkway will be provided at the Rt. 9 intersec tion one mile south, and later at the new interchange 29. Other parkway projects under down-to-earth language. "All this gab about a new gospel gives me a cramp," Rev.

Mr. DePuy said in an editorial distributed recently by the American Baptist News Service. "There is plenty wrong with the church, but it is not so much a changed world that is causing it as it is the fact that the gospel has not really been preached in its integrity. The church has not been true to the Scriptures. The clergy has lost its nerve.

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