Word: reinhold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acrimonious relations between Catholics and Protestants in this country are scandalous." So writes Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of Protestantism's top intellectual spokesmen, in the current issue of his fortnightly journal, Christianity and Crisis. Many a Christian will agree that: "If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice...
...Christians have been poring over the Book of Revelation, searching for portents and parallels. "Apocalyptic" has become an easy and much overworked word. But to theologians, the possibility-and perhaps imminence-of the world's destruction poses a number of grave questions." In the current issue of the Reinhold Niebuhr-edited quarterly, Christianity & Society, two U.S. theologians struggle with some of these questions. Writes Religion Professor W. Burnet Easton Jr. of Lawrence College...
...idolatry in the U.S. may be a blind, uncritical worship of democracy. So says hawk-nosed Reinhold Niebuhr, a topflight theologian who also takes a vigorous interest in politics. In the current issue of his fortnightly Christianity and Crisis, Editor Niebuhr writes...
...Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...
...leaders. The second group of 38, graduated last fortnight, consisted of ministers and theological students. Each day for the past three months they have listened to lectures, studied, prayed and talked together. There were ministers and students from all over Europe. Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr turned up for a series of lectures during the final week...