Word: ism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Depression struck, putting the U.S. in a new mood to listen to his impassioned preaching, and severely testing the era's "Social Gospel.'' which identified "the Christian faith with a mild socialism and a less mild pacificism, all encased in an overall utopian-ism.'' Against this. Niebuhr reasserted that man is born to sin and striving and cannot dodge either. He attacked both religious liberals and political conservatives, made enemies on the right as what was later called a "premature antifascist'' and enemies on the left as an early antiCommunist...