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NEW BOOK ON CHRIST
PAGE 3—The Georgia Bulletin, July 3,1980
Gertrude Cox:
A Memorial
MRS FLORA GRAHAM (1.) and Mrs. Betty
Aseff, members of the Altar Society at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception, hold
the handmade cut-work linen tablecloth which
will be used for fund-raising at the Shrine this
year.
Sehillebeeckx Meets The Press
BY THE A JARVIS
Gertrude Cox was
stricken with epilepsy at
an early age. Because she
lived at a time when little
could be done for
epileptics in the way of
at-home care, she was
placed in the Home for
Incurables in Atlanta,
now known as the A. G.
Rhodes Memorial Home.
Gertrude was a
resident of the Home for
sixty-two years, until her
death in February, 1978.
She is remembered there
as a kind and gentle
person, helping with
small jobs around the
Home and encouraging
other patients.
According to a close
friend, Mrs. Catherine
McElroy, “She loved to
sit under the trees on the
grounds and feed the
squirrels. Some she had
tamed to take nuts from
her pocket.”
In her free time,
Gertrude embroidered
cut-work tablecloths, a
craft requiring patience
and care. These cloths
she gave to friends, who
treasured her artistry.
Gertrude was a
long-time member of the
Church of the
I mmaculate Conception
in Atlanta. On Sundays,
when she was well
enough to go out, her
friends would take her to
Mass.
She had a special
devotion to the Blessed
Mother and to the Shrine
of the Immaculate
Conception on Martin
Luther King Drive. After
Gertrude’s death,' Mrs.
McElroy decided to
donate one of her finely
made tablecloths to the
Shrine.
It is this cloth that
will be used by the
Immaculate Conception
Altar Society in their
fund-raising efforts this
year.
A true memorial to
Gertrude Cox, it speaks
eloquently of her
willingness to share her
gifts with others and her
determination to turn
personal pain into
hopeful enthusiasm.
After Gertrude’s
death, Catherine
McElroy found the
following verse among
her friend’s belongings. It
is testimony to the
strength and courage of
Gertrude Cox:
If I can let into some
soul a little light,
If I some pathway
dark and drear can
render bright,
If I to one in gloom
can show the sunny side,
Though no reward I
win, I shall be satisfied.
NEW YORK (NC) -
Pope John Paul II is
operating with a
monolithic Polish model
of the church that will not
work in the West, said
Dominican Father Edward
Sehillebeeckx, whose
theological writings on
Christ are under
investigation by the
Vatican’s doctrinal
congregation.
“Perhaps rightly in the
special situation there (in
Poland) facing a
communist state, the
church becomes a
monolithic and a bloc
church against a bloc
state,” he said at a press
conference in New York.
“But when you accept
that for the pluralistic
world of the West, it
doesn’t work.”
Father Sehillebeeckx,
65, who was bom in
Belgium but has been a
professor of theology at
the Catholic University of
Nijmegen, the
Netherlands, for 22 years,
said the Dutch clergy and
laity were generally agreed
in rejecting decisions made
at the Dutch synod
convoked by Pope John
Paul at the Vatican in
January.
Only a small group of
conservatives agree on
restricting the work of
non-ordained “pastoral
workers,” barring married
priests from teaching at
theological schools and
other steps to restore
former patterns of
discipline, he said.
The Dutch bishops,
who all signed the synod
document, now are in a
difficult position, Father
Sehillebeeckx said,
because they are
committed to resolving all
these matters by Jan. 1
and to halting practices
they have been tolerating.
The press conference
was held to proniote the
English edition of Father
Schillebeeckx’s book,
“Christ: The Experience
of Jesus as Lord,”
published in Dutch in
1977. It is a sequel to his
earlier book, “Jesus: An
Experiment in
Christology,” on which
the investigation of his
orthodoxy by the
Vatican’s doctrinal
congregation has focused.
The publisher of the
English editions of both
books is Seabury Press,
owned by the Episcopal
Church.
Father Sehillebeeckx
said he has rejected no
dogmas (authoritatively
proclaimed doctrines of
the Church) but has rather
sought ot restate them in
<relation to contemporary
experience.
The formulations by
the Council of Chalcedon
in 451 of the orthodox
doctrine concerning the
union of the human and
divine natures in the
person of Christ were
correct at the time, he
said. “But such words as
‘person’ have come to have
a different meaning. So if
you reiterate the same
statements that Chalcedon
made, you are speaking
against the intention of
Chalcedon.”
Father Sehillebeeckx
said the sources of
revelation in Scripture and
tradition cannot be fully
understood now without
considering “human
experiences of today,” not
only an individual’s inward
experience, but the total
experience of humanity.
But while a
“correlation” of Scripture
and tradition with
experience is necessary, he
said, a “critical
confrontation” is also
needed because experience
may be “pseudo-experi
ence” and the revelation
of Scripture and tradition
comes in historically
conditioned clothing.
Father Sehillebeeckx
said that he has received
support during the Vatican
investigation not only
from the head of his order,
the Dominican master
general, Father Vincent de
Couesnongle, and Cardinal
Jan Willebrands of
Utrecht, the Netherlands,
president of the Dutch
Bishops’ Conference, but
also from many Dutch lay
people.
He said even Dutch
farmers had been reading
his books, identifying with
his positions and coming
to feel themselves under
attack when he was
attacked. His book,
“Christ,” a hefty tome of
925 pages sold 20,000 to
25,000 copies at about
$60 each in the
Netherlands, with a
population of about 13.6
million.
Father Sehillebeeckx
said he accepted the
supervision of the church’s
magisterium, or official
teaching authority, over
theologians and thought
the church needed to warn
Catholics against false
teachings.
He said that as a
theologian he acknowled-
ged a pastoral
responsibility to the laity
and consequently
sometimes used more
cautious language than he
might otherwise prefer.
But the freedom and
ease with which he
responded to a wide
variety of questions
indicated that Vatican
investigation of his work
had not made him timid.
He noted that the Vatican
has no concordat, or
treaty gdverning
church-state relations,
with the Netherlands.
Consequently, he said, he
has more protection in his
teaching role than did
Father Hans Kung, who
was removed as a teacher
of Catholic theology at the
University of Tubingen,
West Germany, after the
Vatican declared he was
no longer a Catholic
theologian.
Father Sehillebeeckx
said he plans to publish a
book on the church next
year, which he expects to
arouse even more
opposition than “Jesus”
and “Christ.” “I will write
in my next book what I
would have written if
there was no trouble with
Rome,” he said.
MISS GERTRUDE COX in her room at the
A.G. Rhodes Memorial Home on Boulevard
S.W. Atlanta in 1977. Miss Cox, whose
embroidered tablecloth will be used as a
fund-raiser for the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, was a member of Immaculate
Conception Church until her death in 1978.
W. TERENCE WALSH of Atlanta, a graduate
of Marist School and a member of Christ the King
parish, is the new president of the Younger
Lawyers Section, State Bar of Georgia.
fin A u. _ _
umi uperaies
Group Home
The Christian
Association for the
Retarded, Inc. is a
non-profit, charitable
corporation which was
formed in 1968 to aid
retarded citizens and their
families. The Association
has pioneered many
programs in DeKalb
County. The Association
sponsored the first
preschool classes for the
mentally retarded and also
started swimming and
bowling programs.
Overnight camping trips
and on-going recreational
activities continued
throughout the 1970’s.
The Association is
currently in the process of
establishing and operating
an independent group
residence for develop-
mentally disabled citizens.
The Association is
comprised of the following
Tucker Area Churches:
Tucker First Baptist, St.
Andrews Presbyterian,
Embry Hills United
Methodist, Holy Cross
Catholic, and Mountain
West Church of God. The
staff and governing bodies
of each of these Churches
has officially endorsed the
residence. Each Church
has a trustee on the
governing Board. The First
United Methodist Church
of Tucker and St. Bede’s
Episcopal are in the
process of becoming
official members of the
Association. They already
have representatives on the
Board.
In addition to
Churches, other
community and civic
organizations are being
urged to join the effort to
aid the developmentally
disabled. Eastern Air Lines
Silverliner’s, an
organization of former
airline stewardesses, has
already joined in this
endeavor.
What is an independent
group residence? Basically,
it is a home and family
atmosphere for a small
number of physically
and/or mentally
handicapped (retarded)
people. There are live-in
house parents who work
closely with a management
team to set goals and
oversee day-to-day
operations. The home,
supervision, and support
of caring people helps the
developmentally delayed
person to become a valued
and productive member of
the community.
The Association is now
looking for a live-in staff
couple to work in this new
program for four mentally
handicapped men. A
beautiful home, board,
and salary will be provided
in return for the
opportunity to contribute
to the lives of other
people. Experience in the
area of special education
or psychology is desirable
but not necessary. This
would be an ideal situation
for a young couple or
gra duate students.
Alternate staff couples will
also be needed to work
one or two weekends a
month in this program.
For more information
contact Gail Wallace -
938-2960 or Jeanne Smith
- 457-8342.
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