Word: niebuhr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most Ingenious Paradox."Niebuhr is at his characteristic best when he wields the flashing, two-edged sword of paradox: his book's most brilliant chapters are titled "The Power and Weakness of God" and "Mystery and Meaning." In the first, he cites the symbol of Christ crucified as the great reconciliation of two apparent irreconcilables-God's all-powerful goodness, and the power of evil in the world. In God's own willingness to submit to His creature man's free will, says Niebuhr, His final majesty-mercy-is revealed. In "Mystery and Meaning...
Intense, eager Theologian Niebuhr seems as paradoxical as his analysis of Christian doctrine. Noted as he is among churchmen for his neo-orthodox theology, he is almost as well known among intellectual liberals for his unorthodox politics. His writing is knotty, intellectual and forbidding; in speaking he has such a hard time keeping up with his racing mind that his words are accompanied by furious arm-flailings and face-twistings that sometimes make him look-though never sound -like an oldtime, fire-and-brimstone revivalist...
...Niebuhr's preoccupation with sin moved the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, to give him a gentle theological ribbing after a student conference at Swanwick where Niebuhr spoke...
...Swanwick, when Niebuhr had quit it. Said a young man: "At last I have hit it. Since I cannot do right, I must find out tonight The best sin to commit-and commit...
...German-born Evangelical minister in Wright City, Mo., Reinie Niebuhr wanted to be a theologian from the time he was a small boy. Eventually he took his Bachelor of Divinity degree and his Master's at Vale and started his career with a $50-a-month pastorate in Detroit, his one & only parish. Since 1928 he has been in Manhattan, at Union, where he teaches ethics and philosophy and religion. A high point of Niebuhr's theological recognition came in 1939, when he was invited to deliver the esteemed Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh.* The lectures, published later...