Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary, will preach at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Memorial Church. Reverend Nebuhr is a member of the Board of Preachers, which arranges and conducts the University religions services...
Under the title Is There a Revival of Religion? Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr, in the New York Times Magazine, says that "there are certain marked tendencies in both the cultural and the popular interests of our day which would seem to prove the reality of such a revival...
Neither is Mr. Niebuhr's thesis that the Renaissance movement toward glorifying the individual was a wicked flight into paganism well taken. It could just as logically be argued that this was a reaction against the depressing, guilt-producing dogma of the church that man is innately evil, and represented a flight into freedom, away from dogma contrary to man's nature...
...Niebuhr, with his mystical emphasis on "sin," is, in my opinion, just as guilty of mental astigmatism as was Karl Marx, who was blinded to everything but man's economic side...
...Reinhold Niebuhr's theology ... is a bit abstruse to the obtuse (most...