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January 8, 2009

Richard Mouw on Richard Neuhaus

The president of Fuller Seminary remembers his friend and colleague.

Richard Neuhaus has been a significant influence in my own life, beginning in the early 1970s when he headed up the Council on Religion and International Affairs, and edited its magazine, Worldview. He reached out to me in the very early days of my academic career, inviting me to consultations, publishing essays that I had written, and - most significantly - giving me an important role in "the Hartford Appeal" group, a project that produced a much-discussed document calling the churches, Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox, back to a mission in the world that was guided, not by fashionable trends, but by the marching orders that come to us by way of divine revelation.

I experienced Richard's "convening power" in a marvelous way; it was through his leadership that I got to spend time with, and work on common projects with, Avery Dulles, George Lindbeck, Alexander Schmemann, and others. To be sure, Richard never simply chaired or edited: he was a person of strongly expressed opinions about many things. Sometimes I disagreed with those opinions, but I always learned from him. I will never forget Richard pointing out that according to the ancient church's prayer for the dead, it is not St. Peter, but Lazarus the beggar who greets the departed at the pearly gates. I have no doubt that Lazarus and the angels are now celebrating his arrival!

Comments

...and all along I thought that the "Rich Man and Lazarus" was just one of those wonderful stories of Jesus to drive home a point!

...and all along I thought that the story of "The Rich Man and Lazarus" was just made up by Jesus to drive home a point!!!

Father Richard Neuhaus ,for many people he's the best and realll American figur.

rest in peace, father


ECT faces insurmountable problems; namely how a person is justified before God. While there are surely many Catholics who are saved, it is despite the aberrant faith plus works stance of the church. Equally problematic is the "adoration" rendered to Mary and the "saints". The list could go on. SOLA FIDE.

Michael Todd