Word: niebuhr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebuttal to a statement of Niebuhr's that "Europe's democratic forces are behind Byrnes and not Wallace," Friedrich criticized "false alternatives," stating certain forces may be behind neither and pointing to the generally hostile reactions to the Byrnes policy in French political quarters. He added that Niebuhr's information concerning the "planned economy" provision in the Bavarian constitution was decidedly incorrect...
...primarily a cultural reporter, looked for signs of life in the arts, and found some. Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of the Christian Century (whose full report is published in the Century this week) found a political and spiritual bankruptcy, which, in a despairing mood, he pronounced incurable. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, the leading U.S. Protestant theologian (whose article appears in LIFE this week), is also gravely concerned over Europe's chances of survival, but after a realistic analysis of the danger of war between the East and West, found hope in a positive U.S. policy for meeting, and averting that...
Realism & Calvinism. "The one thesis," wrote Niebuhr, "is directed against the Christian doctrine of the sinfulness of man. The argument runs roughly as follows: To believe in the sinfulness of man is to believe in total depravity. To believe in total depravity is to accustom men to evil. Every step in this logic is false...
...Unitarians' second thesis, according to Niebuhr, ran as follows: "Modern orthodoxy is a revival of Calvinism. Calvinism is deterministic. It does not believe in doing anything about anything but in waiting upon God to save the world...
...Every step in this logical process is also false," wrote Niebuhr, and proceeded to an example: the Unitarians had accused both Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen and Niebuhr of being "futilitarian gadflies." Said Niebuhr of himself and Sheen: "There is not only practically nothing in common between their thoughts, but both of them are very active in political causes, though the causes are more or less diametrically opposed...