Word: niebuhr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carrying on a tradition of over two centuries, the annual public Dudleian Lecture on natural and revealed religion will be delivered today by Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological School, as part of the visitation day ceremonies of the Divinity School...
Approximately 100 clergymen and alumni are expected to attend the festivities, which open at 10:30 o'clock with the annual assembly of the Alumni Association. The meetings will continue throughout the day, and will feature, in addition to Niebuhr's address, the annual Ingersoll Lecture by Douglas Van Streere, associate professor of Philosophy at Haverford College...
...Niebuhr Honored...
Characterized by J. Seelye Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology, who is in general charge of the ceremony, as an "outstanding leader and thinker in contemporary religions and political fields," Niebuhr will speak on "The Relation of the devotional service will be conducted Revelation to the Meaning of History." One of the few Americans to have been appointed to a Gifford Lectureship of Scotland, an honor which he shares with Professor William E. Hocking and Professor Arthur Darby Nock of Harvard, he is the author of many books and an editor of the "Nation...
...Romanticism, the "science" of racism, a vague economic socialism, and Volk collectivity," Wagner is analyzed to show his peculiar position as forerunner of the Nazis. Their idealism is precisely the "soaring into metapolitics" Wagner wrote of. This theory of Wagner Viereck holds in common with Jacques Barzun and Reinhold Niebuhr, and is backed up by Hitler's own words. Nazi metapolitics, however, though a definite creed, runs across the grain of western life. It exalts irrationality and denounces reason...