CORRESPONDENCE:
BRIODY, CHARLES & Carlan, Margaret M. & Hitchcock, James
CORRESPONDENCE Divinity Fudge St. Louis, Mo. To the Editors: The controversies surrounding the St. Louis University School of Divinity are murky enough without Margaret Carlan muddying the waters...
...Louis University School of Divinity are murky enough without Margaret Carlan muddying the waters even more ("Shaping the End of a Divinity School...
...To confuse things even further a "School of Theology" materializes near the end of the article...
...JAMES HITCHCOCK Department of History St...
...Jan...
...Yet a Divinity professor serves on our editorial board, a Divinity professor will have an article in a forthcoming issue, and I have requested articles from several other Divinity professors...
...Communio, the journal I edit, has been characterized as conservative...
...Carlan's thesis is also inherently illogical...
...I myself hold an adjunct professorship in the Divinity School...
...She postulates a Divinity School which "in many ways represents the new church on campus" and a Theology Department with a "more traditional and apologetic role...
...Conversely a Theology professor and I have made minor careers holding public debates on the state of the Church, he upholding the "liberal" side...
...If Father O'Connell, our president, regards the Divinity faculty as of questionable orthodoxy, why should he wish to have them teaching undergraduates or why should he contaminate the "pure" Theology Department by merging the two...
...There are highly capable, dedicated faculty in both Divinity and Theology and, if the terms are applicable, there are liberals and conservatives in both...
Vol. 101 • March 1975 • No. 16
