Word: neibuhr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prof. Reinhold Neibuhr, Union Theological Seminary...
...Neibuhr insists that the Marxists will be hamstrung in their practical politics until they have abandoned their crusade against the churches, just as the churches will lose intellectual caste unless they reach a compromise with political revolution. He has not deluded himself in the hope that sweet reasonableness will actually prevail, nor has he succeeded in drawing up a program for the agreement which he sees as necessary. But he has accomplished another and scarcely less valuable task, by throwing the problem into sharp relief, and by forming the basis for an intelligent understanding of the relation between the dominant...