Word: niebuhr
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Richard R. Niebuhr '47, Hollis professor of divinity, has a love for teaching and learning...
...century" ever since she was 14 and began attending the youth sessions of the Rev. Donald G. Jones in Park Ridge, Illinois. He cemented her sense as a Methodist of an obligation to help the less fortunate and introduced her to the writings of theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. The former sought to redefine the Christian role in the modern world as one of overcoming alienation through a sense of community; the latter made the case for using power to achieve good...
...cheered Luce's appeal. But even some of them were disturbed by the missionary's son's missionary zeal. The Nation called Luce's program magnanimous but also smug and self-righteous. The Literary Magazine at his alma mater, Yale, called it "jingoistic jargon." Luce's favorite theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, later wrote that the very title implied an "egoistic corruption...