From that unassailable platform, in the name of steering the Church to a place where its teaching would be «relevant,» Curran was able to
lead theologians across the United States in their definitive Statement of Dissent from Paul Vl's encyclical Humanae Vitae in the following summer of 1968.
Braaten spent several years in the 1970s engaged in ecumenical discussions, sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School, that brought together
leading academic
theologians from
across the spectrum of mainline Protestantism.