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Another statement on the matter in a distinctly different vein, was made yesterday morning by the Rev. Joseph Barth, minister of King's Chapel, a Unitarian church in Boston attended by many influential friends of the University. Barth, speaking on the Biblical sentence, "There shall be one fold and one shepherd," called upon Memorial Church "to welcome differences into itself... in the method of a covenant among the differing with all to use the chapel in freedom...
...Germany's best-known products, theology, lately has not given much aid and comfort to the West. The neutralism of Karl Barth, with its plague-on-both-your-houses detachment from the struggle between Communism and the free world, dominates such influential German clergymen as Pastor Niemoller, such prominent theologians as Bonn University's Professors Helmut Gollwitzer and Hans-Joachim Iwand. Last week Hamburg University students jampacked their biggest lecture hall to listen to a very different kind of theologian...
...Fresh Look. Niebuhr holds that the theology underlying Barth's political judgment is defective on two counts. First, it is too eschatological, too concerned with the second coming of Christ at the world's end to be able to see the relevancies and relativities of politics here and now. Second, says Niebuhr, it is devoid of principle. Barth once answered his colleague Emil Brunner, who had asked him why he did not oppose Communist totalitarianism as he had the Nazi variety, by saying: "The church must concern itself with political systems not in terms of principles...
...relation to Hungary, Barth has been what Niebuhr calls "a kind of unofficial Pope of the Hungarian Reformed Church." Called upon in 1948 by that church for advice in its relations with the Communist regime, Barth encouraged collaboration with the Reds, and urged the church not to let opposition to the Communists guide its affairs. Niebuhr concedes that Barth is no Marxist and grants that in East Germany Barth's "eschatological emphasis has inspired a kind of religious resistance which has permitted the East German Christians to bear witness to their faith." But why has Barth not confessed that...
Word of Advice. A team of five English-speaking students of Barth promptly rallied to defend their master. His silence during the Soviet suppression of Hungary, they said, was to avoid pouring fuel on the blaze of "crusading fervor" that flared up in Switzerland at the time. And why, they ask, should Barth have "to speak to every significant event"? They deny that Barth rejects all political principle-pointing out that he told the Hungarians it was not permissible to join the Communist Party merely to keep...