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...theologian who proselytized for the early 20th century Protestant movement against the attenuating liberalism of the day, and argued for a return to a systematic theology that accepted the Bible as the only source of divine revelation; following a stroke; in Zurich. The articulate Brunner carried the dogma of neo-orthodoxy to Protestant seminaries around the world, was often compared to his fellow countryman Karl Earth, who espoused the same biblicism, but the two sometimes disagreed on the application of Christian principles to life...
...School to ride the crest of each successive wave of American Protestant thought. First, as a citadel of liberalism, it warred on fundamentalism. Then it pioneered in historical criticism of the Bible, developed professional standards for Sunday-school teachers. Later the school was swept by Karl Earth's neo-orthodoxy and Paul Tillich's existential theology. And it was in the library of fortresslike Swift Hall in 1955 that Student Thomas Altizer, now professor of religion at Atlanta's Emory University, came suddenly to the conclusion that "God is dead" for modern society...
Whereas White concedes the difficulties in trying to extend aid to Africa, Azikiwe unhesitatingly labels American efforts "neo-colonial." His are the familiar complaints against the United States' moral crusade against communism: charges of economic exploitation and manipulation, cries of CIA conspiracies and engineered coups. Azikiwe maintains that the unrest in Ghana leading to Nkrumah's downfall was caused by an international capitalist 'cocoa conspiracy" which depressed the price of cocoa, Ghana's staple crop. Apparently the increased production of cocoa in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast had little to do with the falling price. Azikiwe is justified in condemning...
...technologically blighted in a world that is fast integrating its trade and increasing its industrial and scientific prowess. Most of them simply cannot get up the ante to enter the race, let alone run the course on their meager human and natural resources. There is always the prospect of neo-imperialism, in which the stronger new nations would take over the weaker, but the votes and voices of other small nations in the U.N. are a deterrent to such country grabbing...
...heat of the debate on Viet Nam comes as something of a surprise to his readers. He has a tendency to write slightly off the news-analyzing one part of the world when the fire is burning in another. Viet Nam he hits headon. In answer to the neo-isolationism of a Walter Lippman, who argues that the U.S. is over-extended abroad, Sulzberger denies that the U.S. sphere of interest is geographically limited. "Greece and Iran," he wrote, "where U.S. determination forced Communist retreats in Stalin's day, were far from American shores-as were Korea, Lebanon, Laos...